Three children went out to play. Only two came back...
The Flower Girls. Laurel and Primrose.
One convicted of murder, the other given a new identity.
Now, nineteen years later, another child has gone missing.
And The Flower Girls are about to hit the headlines all over again...
Join us here at UNSW Bookshop for a night with Alice Clark-Platts, crime writer and former human rights lawyer who has worked at the UN International Criminal Tribunal in connection with the Rwandan genocide and on cases involving Winnie Mandela and rapper Snoop Dogg.
After relocating to warmer climates and then to Singapore it was there, while looking after her two young daughters, that Alice began her love for crime writing and wrote her first novel Warchild, which was shortlisted for the Impress Prize in 2013. She is the author of the police procedural Bitter Fruits and The Taken, the latter of which was shortlisted for the Best Police Procedural in the Dead Good Reader Awards 2017.
When Alice is not writing, she runs The Singapore Writers’ Group which she founded in 2012. The Singapore Writer's Group is a fantastic group of both professional and amateur writers who meet monthly and attend workshops and critique sessions.
To celebrate the launch of Alice's 2019 publication The Flower Girls, we are excited to announce that we are hosting an evening with Alice Clark-Platts in conversation with UNSW's Professor Michael Richardson, discussing affect theory, literary testimony and the representation of trauma and violence through story as a means to access its psychology.
Michael Richardson is a senior lecturer at the School of Arts & Media UNSW. His interdisciplinary research investigates the intersection of affect and power in media, literature, politics and culture, with a particular emphasis on witnessing and testimony.
To pre-order Alice Clark-Platts The Flower Girls head to;
https://www.bookshop.unsw.edu.au/details.cgi?ITEMNO=9781526602152
