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Discover The Underworld with Sofie Laguna in Launceston

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Event

Discover The Underworld with Sofie Laguna in Launceston


Time & date

6:00pm, 26th November 2025


Location

St Luke's Launceston View map

Ground floor 89 Cimitiere Street, Launceston, TAS 7250


Tickets

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Tickets $10, includes a drink on arrival.

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About

Join Petrarch's Bookshop at St Lukes as we launch The Underworld, the much awaited new novel from the Miles Franklin Award-winning author Sofie Laguna.

Martha Mullins is a misfit. Her mother is glamorous, aloof and judgemental. Her father, mostly absent. Academic and shy, Martha finds herself fascinated by the underworld, a place she learns about in Roman mythology classes at school. To Martha, the underworld and its divine inhabitants provide a place of refuge, escape, imagination and desire.

The Underworld is a wondrous novel from an author who wields her considerable powers with assuredness and grace. Funny, brave, insightful and clever, Martha will break your heart – then mend it – many times over.

Book sales available at the event.

Tickets includes a drink on arrival.

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The Underworld
The much awaited new novel from the Miles Franklin Award-winning author, Sofie Laguna. The Underworld is for every reader you know; thinkers, laughers, empaths, quirky folk, queer folk, nostalgists, the young and those getting on. Readers seeking a happy ending and anyone ready to feel. Anyone who has ever been fourteen.
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