This episode our featured book is brought to you by Text Publishing and we’re so excited to talk to TARA CALABY about her debut novel HOUSE OF LONGING.

Tara Calaby lives in Gippsland with her wife and far too many books. She is currently a PhD candidate at La Trobe University, researching the social worlds of women in Victorian lunatic asylums.

Her speculative and historical short stories have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies.

Tara recommends A Million Things by Emily Spurr. (Note: You will cry!!) 

You can find Tara on her website, Twitter and Instagram.

Kate and Katherine discuss: 

Inconceivable: Heartbreak, Bad Dates and Finding Solo Motherhood by Alexandra Collier 

Motherhood by Sheila Heti 

The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel 

Till Death Do Us Part (article in The Good Weekend) by Fenella Souter 

Yo'ure Welcome podcast with Hilary Rushford Collyer (these three episodes) 

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