Ordinary Funny Tragic is a darkly sharp, wryly funny novel about bad mothers, problematic families, forgiveness and, finally growing up. Celebrate the launch with Bridie Jabour in-conversation with Steph Beck over a high tea of scones, sweets, sandwiches and champagne!

Bridie Jabour is Head of Multimedia at Guardian Australia. She has previously worked as a journalist reporting on social affairs, politics and regional issues. She has worked in the Canberra press gallery and was a reporter for Brisbane Times after starting her career at the Gold Coast Bulletin in Queensland. Bridie writes commentary on feminism, inequality, and pop culture, and appears regularly on The Drum, Triple J and ABC Radio Sydney. She is the author of Trivial Grivances: On the contradictions, myths and misery of your 30s.

Steph Beck is our Director and the Events and Marketing Manager! She is a History and Aboriginal Studies teacher at a local high school, and has been a bookseller since she was 17. She is of Lebanese and German descent, and lives on Gadigal land. Her favourite genres are Australian fiction, historical fiction, literary fiction and graphic novels.

Drinks and nibblies provided.