Thu 5 Nov · 6pm
Gleebooks · Glebe
a novelist in conversation about friendship, art and growing up in the city
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6pm for 6.30pm Thursday 5th November
Hannah Goldstein in conversation with Madeleine Gray
Helena and Ruthie have been best friends since high school, where they bonded over Wuthering Heights, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet and photographs of Joseph Stalin when he was young and hot. They dreamed of getting a place of their own in the city and living a life of great passion, art and romance.
But as they drift into their late twenties, they are forced to contend with the idea that growing up might mean growing apart. Helena works at an elite boys' private school -- a misogynistic hellhole rife with sexual harassment and paintings of ships. Every day she pines for an ex-boyfriend who left her with nothing but a print of an artwork of Ophelia drowning. Meanwhile, Ruthie is pouring her marital despair into three-tiered funfetti cakes and seeking refuge from her family in solo Friday night trips to Woolworths.
When an old school friend invites Helena and Ruthie to a glamorous forest wedding, they jump at the chance to reconnect. But finding their way back to each other, past unrealised dreams and younger selves, isn't as easy as they thought. Inspired by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dream Girls is a novel about love and friendship in absurd times.
Hannah Goldstein is a writer and teacher from Sydney. Her fiction has appeared in The Big Issue and the UTS Writers' Anthology and been shortlisted for the Richell Prize. Dream Girls is her debut novel.
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Thu 5 Nov 2026, 6pm.
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Gleebooks, Glebe, NSW.
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