Dear Reader,
I didn’t plan it this way but my March 2023 nutshell was also fronted by Nova Weetman — then a children’s author, now also a memoirist: Love, Death & Other Scenes, published this week by UQP, is about to slip into many of your hearts. Written in the immediate aftermath of the death of her partner, the playwright Aidan Fennessy, this account of Nova’s life is a gift to any reader. It is brilliant, down-to-earth, generous, perceptive, warm-blooded, honest writing.
I was there when she wrote it — in the sense that Nova would text me when, bleary-eyed, I was only just drinking my first coffee of the day, to say that she’d been up for hours already, writing it — and we are close friends, co-writers and confidantes, but reading the finished version of Love, Death & Other Scenes was my reminder that you never know what someone is going through. Not really. Not until a writer of Nova’s skill invites you into the full spectrum of their experience.
“Take your broken heart, make it …
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