Red Iris & Gone to Heaven by Carol Bean

Join us for this free event in the warm cosy atmosphere of the Undercurrent for a special evening of local literature and music. Wine, music and food.

CAROL BEAN
Wellington musician Carol Bean wrote a novel during the Covid years. Each day she sat at her laptop and wrote down the story that was being dictated to her by a higher power – her imagination. Like Carol herself, the story is half English, half American, and a bit Kiwi.

RED IRIS
During her experience with breast cancer in 2000, Carol Bean joined a writing group at the Wellington Cancer Society run by playwright Renée Taylor and Red Iris is the result.
“Red Iris pays attention to the real pain of breast cancer, while lending hope to survivorship. The mixture of fact, discussion, autobiography, philosophy, and emails adds very rich layers.” Renée
RED IRIS is a memoir written by Wellington musician, Carol Bean. During her experience with breast cancer in 2000, she joined a writing group run by playwright Renée Taylor.
“Red Iris is extremely open and vulnerable. It is also funny and observant.” Renée.
“Red Iris is a useful tool about how to be emotionally present.” Evie Chauncey

GONE TO HEAVEN
Carol’s memoir also features the power of music, food, and positive thinking as motivations in healing. At the book launch, she will read selected snippets and sing the songs that accompany those stories. Joining Carol onstage will be a handful of musicians including saxophonist Blair Latham, fiddle player Richard Klein, and The Undercurrent’s own banjo goddess, Helena Tripplett.

Every Saturday night at Carlotta’s Bar on the outskirts of a desert town in Nevada, Gone to Heaven play their southern soul music to a full house. The band leader and his English drummer have the added bonus of featuring the Ratt Sisters – backing vocalists, Honey and Sissie Ratt. Sent to this desert precinct is Guy Joiner, an underrated, undercover, young detective. The problem is, he brings big trouble.

“A ripping yarn. Non-stop action. Great fun.”
“Reading this story got me through my divorce.”

These two books are self-published and available at The Undercurrent on the night, or from the writer herself, carolbeannz@gmail.com