S6 Ep220: Kate and Katherine Catch Up + Featured Book HOUSE OF LONGING by Tara Calaby

This episode our featured book is brought to you by Text Publishing and we’re so excited to talk to TARA CALABY about her debut novel HOUSE OF LONGING.

Tara Calaby lives in Gippsland with her wife and far too many books. She is currently a PhD candidate at La Trobe University, researching the social worlds of women in Victorian lunatic asylums.

Her speculative and historical short stories have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies.

Tara recommends A Million Things by Emily Spurr. (Note: You will cry!!) 

You can find Tara on her website, Twitter and Instagram.

Kate and Katherine discuss: 

• The cover reveal for The Hummingbird Effect
• On Waiting, from Madeline Dore's newsletter
• Inconceivable: Heartbreak, Bad Dates and Finding Solo Motherhood by Alexandra Collier 
• Motherhood by Sheila Heti 
• The Swift Dark Tide by Katia Ariel 
• Till Death Do Us Part (article in The Good Weekend) by Fenella Souter 
• Yo'ure Welcome podcast with Hilary Rushford Collyer (these three episodes) 
• Musician, writer and advocate, Eliza Hull (editor of We've Got This: Stories by Disabled Parents) has a new single out - Running Underwater - fab video clip featuring Roya the Destroyer  

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