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Author Talk – Two Mums And A Dad – with Toby Roberts
December 2 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Author Talk
Two Mums And A Dad by Toby Roberts
Friday 2 December, 6pm
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Join Toby Roberts for a fun discussion about his delightful coming of age memoir explores the angst of puberty, school, sport and bad 80s fashion. Beneath the humour lies a deeper reminder of the human drive to pursue a more authentic life, and the capacity for people to surprise us by accepting love in all its forms.
*Two Mums And A Dad*
Sydney’s leafy northern suburbs were a bastion of Christian conservatism in the 70s and 80s, but the Roberts family was always a little different. If having lots of children, pets and parties made them stick out, then a mum with a procession of live-in lovers had the neighbours agog.
Despite the climate of the times, Toby’s parents were able to reach a very bohemian understanding – his dancer mother was free to find love in the arms of younger women, while his doctor father was free to drink and pretend it wasn’t happening.
Growing up a middle child of four, Toby loved his mother’s girlfriends as if they were older siblings. But when his Mum fell for Caro, everything changed. It’s hard enough when your Mum and Dad divorce, and you move into a new home with two Mums – harder still, when one of those Mums challenges your masculinity by flogging you in tennis and lifting weights that would give you a haemorrhoid.
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