Open Book: Family Secrets 18.2.2021 Stonnington Library

Susan Francis is the author of The Love That Remains – an exploration of adoption, unconditional love and the lies we tell to safeguard our happiness. Betty O’Neill is the author of The Other Side of Absence – a story about how Betty pieced together a picture of her father as a Polish resistance fighter, a survivor of Auschwitz and Gusen concentration camps, an exile in post-war England, and a migrant to Australia. Betty and Susan are in conversation with author Claire Halliday (Things My Mother Taught Me, Things My Father Taught Me) to discuss the raw wounds family secrets reveal – and how to heal them. This event will be presented via Zoom. To join you will need an internet-enabled computer, tablet or smartphone. The Zoom meeting ID will be sent to the email address you registered with one hour prior to the start of the session.