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

Today's episode features Victoria Hannan discussing her debut novel Kokomo.

Victoria Hannan is a writer and photographer living in Melbourne. Kokomo, her first novel, was the winner of the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript.

Mina has lived in London for seven years. Good job, nice apartment and then there’s Jack.

Mina’s mum Elaine hasn’t left the house for eleven years. Mina doesn’t like it. Maybe she even left for London to escape it. But that’s just the way things have been since her dad died.

That’s her life until a call arrives from Melbourne “Mina it’s your mum, she’s left the house”.