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Happy Endings with Melanie Saward and Saman Shad

Writing love stories from meet cutes to messy marriages

Melanie Saward (photo credit Jill Kerswill Photography)
Saman Shad (photo credit Alex McClintock)
Thursday 25 September 2025
6-7pm
Event Code: SL2

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Meet cutes, flirty flings, marriage, motherhood and the friendships that anchor us through it all.

Join Melanie Saward and Saman Shad as they discuss their latest novels charting contemporary love and the art of writing romance for the modern age.
 
Melanie’s Blak bisexual rom com Love Unleashed follows Bigambul woman Brynn Wallace as she leaves Brisbane to follow her dreams of a career in publishing in New York City. Saman’s latest novel The Sex Lives of Married Women brings together three women, Meena, Sophie and Rani, whose messy marriages unite them in an unlikely alliance.

Together, they discuss chance encounters, cultural identity, female friendship and how to find a happy ending in this swoon-worthy session.

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State Library of NSW, Library Auditorium
Macquarie Street Wing, Macquarie Street, Sydney, NSW, 2000