Madeleine Grey – Chosen Family
Sunday 16th November starting 6:00 pm
GOLDIE’S X GLEEBOOKS
Join us for supper with Madeleine Gray in conversation with Megha Kapoor, discussing Madeleine’s new book, Chosen Family
A sexy, romantic, queer, epic literary novel for all readers by the award-winning author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller Green Dot.
Books about friendship are not often described as love stories, but this is one.
Nell Argall and Eve Bowman are both brilliant, odd and friendless. Traumatised in their first year of high school, their lives are changed forever when they meet.
Set in Sydney over eighteen years, Chosen Family follows Nell and Eve as they grow into themselves, as they both love and destroy each other. From school, to university, to careers, to motherhood, Nell’s and Eve’s is a relationship that is a life-raft that is also a poison apple that is also a Medusan stare, frozen in time.
Together, Nell and Eve are a double helix. Love, guilt, shame, joy – these emotions twist and turn between them. Can the wounds of adolescent betrayal ever really heal? Can we ever really understand what is going on in someone else’s head? And what’s love got to do, got to do with it?
Written with Gray’s characteristic compassion, wit, and dark humour, Chosen Family is a modern classic for the ages.
$49 per person includes drink on arrival & supper www.goldiesdulwichhill.com.au/gleebooks
Madeleine Gray is a writer and critic from Sydney. She has written arts criticism for SRB, Overland, Meanjin, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly etc. In 2019 she was a CA-SRB Emerging Critic, and in 2021 she was a finalist for the Walkley Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism, a finalist for the Woollahra Digital Literary Non-fiction award, and a recipient of a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel grant. Madeleine has a PhD in feminist literary theory from the University of Manchester, an MSt in English from the University of Oxford and a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Art History from the University of Sydney. She is the author of Green Dot.
Megha Kapoor is a renowned editor, creative director and writer known for her timeless aesthetic and commitment to diverse storytelling. As the former editor of Vogue India, she expanded its global influence, championing creativity and redefining its visual language. Born in India and raised in New Zealand, she founded INPRINT, a multidisciplinary publishing platform, and previously worked at Vogue Australia.