Book Launch: Brannavan Gnanalingam & Murdoch Stephens

Join Unity Books Wellington and Lawrence & Gibson Publishing for the launch of two new novels from Brannavan Gnanalingam and Murdoch Stephens - Slow Down, You're Here & Down from Upland.

'Down from Upland' is a kitchen sink, domestic novel that opens at the precise moment the first Millennials find themselves raising a teenager. While flirting with an open marriage, Jacqui and Scott nudge their son on a more moderate course as he begins at a new high school and makes new friends. Skewering the best and worst of Wellington’s leafy middle class, the novel features public servants with varying degrees of integrity, precocious Wellington High students and a foreign lover at the end of a working holiday visa.

In 'Slow Down, You're Here', Kavita is stuck in a dead-end marriage. A parent of two small kids, she is the family’s main breadwinner. An old flame unexpectedly offers her a week away in Waiheke. If she were to go, she’s not sure when - or if - she’d come back.

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