Join award-winning author Melissa Manning to explore her powerful new novel Frogsong, a moving story of love, loyalty and the ties that bind us.
Join award-winning author Melissa Manning as we delve into her new release Frogsong; a lyrical and devastating story of love, addiction and the ghosts that bind us.
Frogsong tells the story of Caro and Danny who grew up side by side at the waterhole. Bound by love, loss, and a promise Caro made to Danny’s mother, their lives become entwined. But as Danny spirals into addiction and self-destruction, Caro is caught between loyalty and the need to save herself.
Hosted by book reviewer for Triple R Breakfasters, Fiona Wright.
Melissa Manning is an Australian author of fiction and narrative non‑fiction based in Melbourne. Her debut interlinked short‑story collection, Smokehouse (UQP, 2021), won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction and was shortlisted for the UQ Steele Rudd Award.
Her writing has been widely published in journals and anthologies including Meanjin, Overland, Southerly, The Big Issue, Best Small Fictions (USA) and To Carry Her Home (UK). Raised in southern Tasmania, Melissa draws strongly on landscape and place in her work.
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