Great Conversations features interviews with authors and writers, exploring books, writing and literary culture from Australia and the world.

Today's episode features Helen Fox discussing her new novel How it Feels to Float.

Biz is seventeen and lives near the beach in Wollongong. She’s got her posse at school and her best friend Grace.

She’s also got her dad and they talk, often. The only thing is Biz’s dad died when she was seven, so she can’t exactly tell anyone about these conversations.

Biz’s world is full of the daily struggles of those who are simultaneously trying to assert their identities and find their tribe. After a traumatic encounter, Biz finds herself ostracised by her friends and adrift, suffering in her own private world.