We are excited to be once again hosting Meet the Author: Victoria Hannan for the launch of Victoria's latest novel, I Love the Whole World! Victoria is the author of the much-loved Kokomo and Marshmallow, and will be chatting to our very own Rose Hartley at 630pm on Thursday August 27 in our beautful Matilda Bookshop, 1/8 Mt Barker Road, Stirling. Please join us in hearing what promises to be a glittering conversation about new beginnings, deserts, Vegas, art and pilgrimages between two writers.
I Love the Whole World! is a celebration of life and self. Hilarious, joyous and beautifully observed, it is a novel about friendship, ageing and the extra/ordinary act of deciding to begin again.When Leslie McDonald wins a trip to Las Vegas, an absurd holiday becomes a pilgrimage; one that leads her back to joy, back to herself, and to the astonishing realisation that her life still belongs to her. Leslie had felt for some time that life was a series of things that just happened to her. When her physiotherapist husband dumps her for a woman with superior posture, she finds herself lost without a map. A ticket out of her misery comes in the form of an all-expenses paid trip to the bright lights of Las Vegas. Wonder, Leslie discovers, can be found in the most unexpected of places. Soon she falls in love with the beauty of the desert, its art and its people – and finds her way back to herself.
Victoria Hannan is a photographer and writer who lives in Melbourne/Naarm. Her previous novels are Kokomo and Marshmallow.
'Hannan’s writing glitters and fizzes and leaves the reader with an afterglow.'
KATE MILDENHALL
'A joy to read.'
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When Leslie McDonald wins a trip to Las Vegas, an absurd holiday becomes a pilgrimage; one that leads her back to joy, back to herself, and to the astonishing realisation that her life still belongs to her.
