Author Alice Robinson joins Elise and Priscilla for an insightful interview about her new release, If You Go. The novel follows protagonist Esther, who must piece together a timeline between her past and the highly confusing present. We chat about a non-linear experience of grief, the relationship between feminism and motherhood, and speculate about the future.
Show Notes
About If You Go
When Esther wakes with a breathing tube down her throat, she has no idea where she is or how she got there. In terrible physical condition, Esther is tended to by Grace, the only other person in the building.
In the half-consciousness of her recovery, Esther is desperate to get back to her young kids and grapples with the events of her life as they come flooding back: a childhood spent between warring parents; the demise of her marriage; the struggles she faced when her children were born.
Suspicious of Grace, Esther takes drastic action to escape. But there are certain facts about the reality of her situation – her place in time, her history and her life – that she will need to uncover first.
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About the Author
Alice Robinson is the author of two previous novels: Anchor Point, longlisted for the Stella Prize and the Indie Book Awards; The Glad Shout, shortlisted for an Aurealis Award and The Colin Roderick Literary Award and winner of the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. In 2012, Alice earned a PhD by research in Creative Writing at Victoria University, for which she was awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Peak Award. Alice lives in Melbourne with her kids, and works at Federation University and RMIT.
You can find Alice on Instagram.
Alice’s recommendations include:
- The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
- All Fours by Miranda July
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