Trent Dalton: Lola in the Mirror

Before he found runaway success with his debut novel, Boy Swallows Universe, and follow-up All Our Shimmering Skies, Trent Dalton spent decades as a journalist investigating the real-life social inequities that underpin his third novel, Lola in the Mirror: poverty, violence, homelessness - and the power of hope.
The result is a moving, darkly funny story about life and death that is by turns heart-breaking and eye-opening. Trent spoke with musician and writer Clare Bowditch at Melbourne Town Hall for the Wheeler Centre’s Spring Fling in October 2023.
This event was presented in partnership with Readings.

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Fantastic free flowing interview. IF only I had the commitment to do a second draft. I love writing, I love creating, but I lack the ability to motivate myself beyond the first draft. I have so many first drafts, I have lost more than I could write in the time I have left on this earth, but the dreaded second draft still eludes me. Thankfully, it does not elude Trent.