The IVF rollercoaster takes a significant physical, emotional and financial toll. Julia Leigh, Toni Jordan and Joshua Yeldham reveal their battlescars in this difficult conversation about building a family and accepting when you can’t.
This event has been updated since the BWF Program went to print. Please note, the revised date of this session is Sat 10 September.
An AUSLAN interpreter will present at this event.
Toni Jordan is the author of four novels. The international bestseller Addition was a Richard and Judy Bookclub pick and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin award. Fall Girl was published internationally and has been optioned for film, and Nine Days was awarded Best Fiction at the 2012 Indie Awards, shortlisted for the ABIA Best General Fiction award, and named in Kirkus Review’s Top 10 Historical Novels of 2013. Toni has been widely published in newspapers and magazines. Her latest novel is Our Tiny, Useless Hearts.
Sydney-based writer Julia Leigh is the author of two internationally acclaimed and widely translated novels, The Hunter (1999) and Disquiet (2008). Her film Sleeping Beauty was nominated for the Palme D’Or at the Festival de Cannes 2011.
Award-winning artist Joshua Yeldham is the author of Surrender, which was conceived as a journal for his daughter. Working across painting, photography and sculpture, his art explores a spiritual connection with, and journey into, the Australian landscape. Surrender is his first book.
