Dawn Barker: Fractured

Date: 22 May 2013
Time: 7.00 pm - 8.00 pm
Venue: Blacktown Library

Presenter
Dawn Barker

Program Short
Dawn Barker discusses her heartbreaking novel Fractured - a raw, compelling and fascinating story of a new mother struggling to cope with her newborn, and the aftermath of a family tragedy that is truly inexplicable.

Program Long
Child psychiatrist Dawn Barker has written a raw, compelling and fascinating novel, {Fractured}, about the aftermath of a tragedy within a family that is truly inexplicable. It is six weeks after the birth of Anna and Tony’s child, Jack. Tony is worried. His wife, Anna, isn’t coping. One moment she’s crying, the next she seems almost too positive. Then, Anna and Jack go missing . . . Come hear Dawn talking about writing this heartbreaking and realistic novel.

Presented with Blacktown City Library and supported by the University of Western Sydney.