Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here

Award-winning novelist Heather Rose’s memoir, Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here, has a title that certainly piques the reader’s interest, but the words between the covers reveal a deeply personal, confronting story quite different to what you might expect. The book contains meditations on grief, healing, love and creativity that follow the course of the author’s life. In conversation with Lenore Taylor, Editor of The Guardian Australia, Rose traces the threads that bind her childhood griefs to her adult writing life.

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Heather Rose is the Australian author of eight novels. Her 2017 novel The Museum of Modern Love won the Stella Prize, the Christina Stead Prize and the Margaret Scott Prize. Heather's most recent novel, Bruny, won the ABIA 2020 General Fiction Book of the Year. Her latest book is a memoir titled Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here.

Lenore Taylor is editor of Guardian Australia. She spent almost three decades as a political correspondent and commentator based in the federal press gallery. She has won two Walkley awards and has twice won the Paul Lyneham award for press gallery journalism. She co-authored a book called Shitstorm on Australia's response to the global financial crisis.

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