Faced with losing her partner, Chloe Hooper turned to stories to talk to her children about death

  • Written by: Jane Messer, Honorary Associate Professor in Creative Writing and Literature, Macquarie University
Faced with losing her partner, Chloe Hooper turned to stories to talk to her children about deathIllustration by Anna Walker from Bedtime Stories. (Right) Author Chloe Hooper.Author provided

The fifth book from Chloe Hooper, an accomplished author of fiction and nonfiction, is in part a bedtime story told across many nights to her two sons, and in part a meditation on how stories – ancient and modern – might sustain or fail us...

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