• Wed 03 Sep – 06:00 pm
• Glen Street Theatre (Glen Street, Belrose, NSW 2085)
• Suitable for ages 12+
• 2 hours (inc interval)

Kate Grenville is no stranger to the past. Her success and fame as a writer exploded when she published The Secret River in 2005, a bestseller based on the story of her convict ancestor, an early settler on the Hawkesbury River. The ABC made the story into a 2-part mini series starring Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Sarah Snook, Tim Minchin, Lachy Hulme and Trevor Jamieson.

More than two decades on, and following the defeat of the Voice referendum, Grenville is still grappling with what it means to descend from people who were, as she puts it, “on the sharp edge of the moving blade that was colonisation”.

So she decides to go on a kind of pilgrimage, back through the places her family stories happened, and put the stories and the First People back into the same frame, on the same country, to try to think about those questions.

Kate gripping new book Unsettled: A Journey Through Time and Place is the result of that journey.

Event Tickets: Glen Street Theatre

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