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

Today's episode features Rebecca Lim discussing her YA own voices novel Tiger Daughter

Today on the show...

Wen and Henry are friends, drawn together as the children of migrants as well as by shared dreams of escaping their suburban school and its petty racism.

Wen loves to read and draw but her father sees these are frivolous pursuits. So she and Henry dream of sitting the selective schools exam and escaping to a high school that will nurture their talents and offer them something more.

Their plan is on track, even if Wen hasn’t told her parents, until one day when Henry doesn’t turn up to school.

Join me as we discover Rebecca Lim’s Tiger Daughter...