What Women Want

Intimate new novels offer unflinching explorations of women’s complex desires.

Lonely Mouth by Jacqueline Maley, inspired by a Japanese expression that conveys the desire to eat something but not knowing what, provides a delicious depiction of women’s appetites and desires. The latest release from Offspring creator Debra Oswald, One Hundred Years of Betty, centres an extraordinary woman recounting her century-long life of massive change. Holly Wainwright puts the bonds of early motherhood to the test in her latest page-turner He Would Never, set on a family camping trip.

Join Jacqueline, Debra and Holly as they discuss the remarkable, unpredictable and powerful wants of the women in their novels. With Nicole Abadee.