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The Mooroopna Library will welcome author Megan Rogers to speak about her recently published book The Heart is a Star on Thursday 18th January at 6.00pm.
Layla Byrnes is exhausted. She’s juggling a demanding job as an anaesthetist, a disintegrating marriage, her young kids, and a needy lover.
And most particularly she's managing her histrionically unstable mother, who repeatedly threatens to kill herself.
When her mother rings just before Christmas, she doesn't follow the usual script. Instead, she tells Layla that there’s something she needs to tell her about her much-loved father. In response, Layla drops everything to rush to her childhood home on the wild west coast of Tasmania. She’s determined to finally confront her mother - and find out what really happened to her father - and lay some demons to rest.
The Heart is a Star is an engrossing and powerfully absorbing novel about the complicated and beautiful messiness of life and about how we can uncover our true selves.
Megan Rogers began her working life as an editorial assistant at Allen & Unwin, before moving to the State Library of Victoria as a Marketing Manager. In 2014 Megan finished a PhD in Creative Writing at RMIT, which resulted in the book, Finding the Plot: a maternal approach to madness in literature published by feminist publisher Demeter Press.
She also has a Bachelor of Arts/Science (Monash), a Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing (RMIT), a Graduate Diploma in Professional Communication (Deakin), and a Masters of Marketing (Monash). The Heart is a Star is her first novel.
If you would like to join Megan Rogers at the Mooroopna Library to hear her speak about her book on Thursday 18th January at 6.00pm please contact Goulburn Valley Libraries on 1300 374 765 or email mooroopna@gvlibraries.com.au.
If you can’t make it to the Mooroopna Library, Megan is also visiting the Numurkah Library at 2.30pm on the same day and the Nagambie Library at 2.30pm the following day. Copies of The Heart is a Star will be available to buy at the event and Megan will be pleased to sign copies of her book.
