The Ruin of Magic by Kate Holden Book Launch - In conversation with Chloe Hooper

Readings Carlton are delighted to host the launch of award–winning author Kate Holden's The Ruin of Magic.

Kate Holden will be in-conversation with Chloe Hooper to discuss the book.

In gorgeous prose Holden meditates on her instinctive yearning for long-ago Europe versus the natural belonging she feels to the Australian landscape, and asks, What is a home? The strongest shelter or the most lethal trap, a museum of ourselves or a showcase of fashions? What, then, does it mean to make ourselves at home in an Australia still finding its way amidst old and avoided truths? Is nostalgia a reasonable mourning of timeless lore lost or a dangerous fantasy? And what has happened to magic and beauty in the glare of modern life?