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Harry Hartog Penrith: When Lemons Give You Life by Anna Johnston
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Harry Hartog Penrith: When Lemons Give You Life by Anna Johnston


Time & date

10:30am - 12:30pm, 13th June 2026


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Harry Hartog Penrith View map

378 High St, Penrith, NSW 2750


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About

Join us at Harry Hartog Penrith on Saturday June 13 at 10:30AM as we welcome Anna Johnston to discuss the release of her second novel - When Lemons Give You Life. This deeply moving story about food, family, and rediscovering joy when life has lost its flavour is not one to miss!

 

About the Book

Retired Michelin-star chef Griff Barlow has lost his appetite for life. Widowed, grieving and living in an aged care facility where beige slop passes for food, Griff is done - with guilt, with loneliness and with the lie that made headlines when he was diagnosed with dementia. Planning one final act, Griff breaks into the nursing home kitchen to cook one last lemon tart. But the simple act of cooking awakens a long-forgotten joy and soon he's restoring flavour, dignity and delight to his fellow residents. meanwhile, his estranged sister, Lisa, is grappling with a late-in-life ADHD diagnosis, an unexpected romance and a frightening health reality of her own. As secrets simmer and second chances collide, both siblings are forced to confront what it really means to choose life.

Book

When Lemons Give You Life

A sharply funny, heart-stirring novel about rediscovering joy when life has lost its flavour, from the author of the bestselling The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife (recently acquired by Netflix).

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