Memorial Days | All About Women 2025
- Author
- Sydney Opera House
- Published
- Sun 13 Jul 2025
- Episode Link
- https://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/digital/podcasts/ideas-at-the-house.html
After spending their early years together in conflict zones as foreign correspondents, Geraldine Brooks and her husband Tony Horwitz settled down for a quiet life. This came to an abrupt end on Memorial Day 2019 with the sudden death of Brooks' beloved husband. Without space to grieve, her loss became a yawning gulf.
Her profoundly moving memoir, Memorial Days, is a portrait of a larger-than-life man and a timeless love between intertwined souls that captures the joy, agony and mystery of life. In this touching talk, Brooks is joined by Jennifer Byrne to discuss how to honour a person, endure their absence in ways both new and old, and rebuild a life after loss.
This event was recorded live at Sydney Opera House on 9 March 2025.
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