A Day in Carlton: Pip Williams with Sally Rippin
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Join us at Readings' A Day in Carlton, 24 hours celebrating books, culture and communityWe are delighted to have Pip Williams, bestselling author of The Dictionary of Lost Words in conversation with bestselling children’s author and former Australian Children’s Laureate, Sally Rippin. Together they will discuss Williams’ new novel, and why you should never underestimate a woman's fortitude.
The German Ward transports the reader to France in 1915, where an English nurse and a German doctor fall in love. He is a prisoner of war; she has never cared for rules. Their love is visceral and urgent, forbidden and doomed, and it would have gone unrecorded if not for a series of drawings found more than a century later.
At first the drawings seem insignificant, but the woman who finds them glimpses moments of intimacy and can’t look away. The images become part of a puzzle she wants to solve: who were the lovers, what became of them, and what story of war was the artist trying to tell?
The German Ward is a luminous tale of love between enemies behind the lines of the First World War and the Australian artist who captured their secret.
Tickets:
Full priced $25
Under 30s/concession $20
Date
Saturday 14 November 2026 12:15 PM - 1:00 PM (UTC+10)Location
Church of All Nations
180 Palmerston Street, Carlton Vic 3053
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