Madeleine Gray at the Constant Reader!

Name: Madeleine Gray at the Constant Reader!
Start: 2025-11-11T18:30:00+11:00
End: 2025-11-11T20:00:00+11:00
Location: Constant Reader Bookshop

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Tue, 11 Nov, 2025 at 06:30 pm

1.5 hours

Constant Reader Bookshop

Starting at AUD 10

Date & Location

Tue, 11 Nov, 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm (GMT+11:00)

Constant Reader Bookshop

27 Willoughby Road, Crows Nest, Australia

About the event

Madeleine Gray at the Constant Reader!

Join us for a discussion with Madeleine and our very own bookseller Melissa Mantle about her brand new book Chosen Family

About this Event

Madeleine Gray's debut novel, Green Dot, was a runaway hit when it came out in 2023 and now she is back with her new novel Chosen Family, described as a sexy, romantic, queer, epic literary novel for all readers.
Join us for an evening of engaging conversation, a glass of wine (or two) and a charcuterie spread as Madeleine Gray talks all things Chosen Family with Constant Reader's bookseller Melissa Mantle.

Books about friendship are not often described as love stories, but this is one. Nell Argall and Eve Bowman are both brilliant, odd and friendless. Traumatised in their first year of high school, their lives are changed forever when they meet. Set in Sydney over eighteen years, Chosen Family follows Nell and Eve as they grow into themselves, as they both love and destroy each other. From school, to university, to careers, to motherhood, Nell's and Eve's is a relationship that is a life-raft that is also a poison apple that is also a Medusan stare, frozen in time. Together, Nell and Eve are a double helix. Love, guilt, shame, joy - these emotions twist and turn between them.
Can the wounds of adolescent betrayal ever really heal? Can we ever really understand what is going on in someone else's head? And what's love got to do, got to do with it? Written with Gray's characteristic compassion, wit, and dark humour, Chosen Family is a modern classic for the ages.

Madeleine Gray is a writer and critic from Sydney. Her first novel, Green Dot, was an acclaimed bestseller in Australia and the UK. In 2024, Madeleine won the ABIA for Matt Richell New Writer of the Year Award and the 2025 Russell Prize for Humour Writing.

Melissa Mantle is a local reporter, arts critic and bookseller with the Constant Reader.

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