Book launch: Who We Were

When: 6:00pm Thursday 23 May
Where: Paperchain Bookstore, 34 Franklin St Manuka
Launched by: Marion Halligan

Marion Halligan will launch Lucy Neave's latest book, Who We Were, at the Paperchain Bookstore on Thursday night.

Who We Were is about a young woman, Annabel, living in Melbourne in 1938. Her dream is to be a scientist, but when she meets Bill Whitton she knows they are destined for each other.

She has to wait for Bill to come back from the war. When he returns, the newly-married Whittons emigrate to New York. They are at once captivated by fellow immigrants Frank, an ex-Communist from Hungary, and his playwright wife, Suzy. It’s the 1950s and the Cold War is in full swing. Frank, Annabel and Bill find work on weapons projects, experimenting with lethal infectious diseases.

Did they cross the world for this? Annabel’s whole being is anchored in her ardour for Bill, and their work together. But other forces—suspicion, paranoia, deceit—are at play. Everything begins to unravel: her work, her career and her marriage.

Who We Were is published by Text Publishing.

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About the author

Lucy Neave completed a Masters of Fine Arts in Writing in the US on a Fulbright scholarship, and has received a Varuna New Writers’ Fellowship and Australian Society of Authors Mentorship. Her fiction has appeared in Australian and American literary journals, including Southerly, Overland and Lost Magazine, and in Best Australian Stories 2009. She teaches creative writing at The Australian National University.