A Bedtime Story

Chloe Hooper’s Bedtime Story is a paean to the solace of reading in times of grief and pain. Its starting point is her partner’s leukemia diagnosis and the challenge of preparing their children for an uncertain future. In conversation with writer and critic Beejay Silcox, Hooper examines the world of children’s literature – a genre that is remarkably dark – and explores how children understand and cope with a world they can’t control.

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Chloe Hooper is the multi-award-winning author of two novels: A Child's Book of True Crime and The Engagement. Her nonfiction books include The Tall Man and The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire. Her latest book is Bedtime Story.

Beejay Silcox is an Australian writer and critic, and the recipient of ABR’s Fortieth Birthday Fellowship. Her literary criticism and cultural commentary regularly appears in national arts publications, and is increasingly finding an international audience, including in the Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian and The New York Times. Her award-winning short stories have been published at home and abroad, and have been selected for a number of Australian anthologies.

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