Priscilla and Elise sit down with Emma Lord to discuss her debut novel, Anomaly. The novel follows teenager Piper Manning, who wakes up after an apocalyptic pandemic alone – and with an uncontrollable power. We talk about the depiction of grief and PTSD, Piper’s isolating experience in the aftermath of a pandemic, Anomaly‘s cast ofContinue reading “Emma Lord: Grief, Trauma, and the Apocalypse l Author Interview”
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Review: Dead Letters and Found Families Abound in Return to Sender
After three years away, seventeen-year-old Brodie McKellon has returned to live with her eccentric grandmother above the last remaining Dead Letter Office – the place letters go when no one is left to claim them. Soon, Brodie is consumed by an unsolved mystery – the unclaimed letters of a group of teens who seemed toContinue reading “Review: Dead Letters and Found Families Abound in Return to Sender”
Novel Feelings: now on YouTube!
Novel Feelings is now fully synced to YouTube, in addition to the usual podcast apps! Subscribe to listen to hours of free content across standard YouTube or YouTube Music. One of the benefits of being on YouTube is having playlists, including:✨ Season 1 book club✨ Season 2 book club✨ Season 3 book club✨ Bonus episodes✨Continue reading “Novel Feelings: now on YouTube!”
Alice Robinson: Grief, Parenting and an Uncertain Future | Author Interview
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 theContinue reading “Alice Robinson: Grief, Parenting and an Uncertain Future | Author Interview”
So, what is the future of Novel Feelings? What do you want it to be?
It’s been four years since we started working on Novel Feelings. But we’re not sure what the future looks like. The inception of Novel Feelings Flashback to mid-2020. COVID lockdowns. Dalgona coffee, Tiger King, sourdough starter, Animal Crossing. Elise has just started her PhD, looking at the use of podcasting for reducing stigma against mentalContinue reading “So, what is the future of Novel Feelings? What do you want it to be?”
Review: a contemporary mystery brings up historical tensions in The Desert Knows Her Name
In Lia Hills’ new novel, a girl walks barefoot out of the Wimmera desert, near the small town of Gatyekarr, on a hot October afternoon. She finds sanctuary with Beth, a regenerative farmer and collector of seeds, devoted to bringing her family’s farm back to life. The arrival of the mysterious ‘desert girl’ unsettles theContinue reading “Review: a contemporary mystery brings up historical tensions in The Desert Knows Her Name”
Review: Red River Road – a tense solo female travel mystery
Anna Downes’ new thriller follows a woman desperate to discover what happened to her sister on a solo road trip through the Australian outback. Katy Sweeney is determined to find her sister. A year earlier, just three weeks into a solo vanlife trip, free-spirited Phoebe vanished without a trace on Western Australia’s remote and achinglyContinue reading “Review: Red River Road – a tense solo female travel mystery”
‘Ravenous Girls’: a tender story of love and hunger
Adelaide. Summertime. 1985. Fourteen-year-old Frankie is struggling to make sense of her older sister Justine’s admission to hospital with anorexia. But growing up is harder than it seems, and as the summer passes, Frankie has to try to make sense of her own life, too. Years later, looking back on her sister’s illness from theContinue reading “‘Ravenous Girls’: a tender story of love and hunger”
Ariane Beeston: Overcoming Mental Illness in Motherhood | Author Interview
Elise and Priscilla chat to author Ariane Beeston on her memoir, Because I’m Not Myself, You See, which traces her experience with motherhood and mental illness. Discussion topics include perinatal and postnatal depression and anxiety, postpartum psychosis, inpatient treatment, and stigma. Show Notes About Because I’m Not Myself, You See Ariane Beeston is a childContinue reading “Ariane Beeston: Overcoming Mental Illness in Motherhood | Author Interview”
‘The Glass House’ and the pointy end of mental healthcare
Psychiatry registrar Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic history, thought she had seen it all in the emergency room. But that was nothing compared to the psychiatric ward at Menzies Hospital. Hannah must learn on the job in a strained medical system, as she and her fellow trainees deal with the common andContinue reading “‘The Glass House’ and the pointy end of mental healthcare”
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