Editor’s note: This episode contains discussion of death and grief practices.

Each month we celebrate an Australian debut release of fiction or non-fiction in the Kill Your Darlings First Book Club. For June that debut is The Eulogy by Jackie Bailey (Hardie Grant), an autofiction novel about family, death and grief that was shortlisted for the 2018 KYD Unpublished Manuscript Award.

Our theme song is Broke for Free’s ‘Something Elated’. Sound production by Nial Hosken.

Further reading:

Read Ellen Cregan’s review of The Eulogy in our June Books Roundup.

Read about Jackie’s favourite books and reading habits in this month’s Shelf Reflection.

How To Be Between is available now from your local independent bookseller.

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