Meet Chloe Hooper 2022

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When Chloe Hooper's partner is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive illness, she has to find a way to tell their two young sons.By instinct, she turns to the bookshelf. Can the news be broken as a bedtime tale? Is there a perfect book to prepare children for loss? Hooper embarks on a quest to find what practical lessons children's literature - with its innocent orphans and evil adults, magic, monsters and anthropomorphic animals - can teach about grief and resilience in real life.Both memoir and manual, Bedtime Story is stunningly illustrated by the New York Times award-winning Anna Walker. In an age of worldwide uncertainty, here is a profound and moving exploration of the dark and light of storytelling.Join bestselling author of The Tall Man: Life and Death on Palm Island and The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire, Chloe Hooper as she discusses her latest book Bedtime Story.Books will be available for purchase on the day Dymocks Brisbane, or bring your copy from home to be signed. To reserve your place, visit Eventbrite.