About Me
Emily Brewin
Emily Brewin is a Melbourne author, copywriter, and learning designer. Her first novel, Hello, Goodbye, was published in 2017 and her second, Small Blessings, in 2019, both with Allen and Unwin. A Way Home (MidnightSun Publishing) is her first YA novel. Her short stories have appeared in the anthologies: Into Your Arms: Nick Cave’s Songs Reimagined by Fremantle Press, We’ll Stand In That Place and Other Stories by Margaret River Press and the Bristol Short Story Anthology – Volume 10. She has written for The Age, ABC Education, news.com.au, Meanjin, Kill Your Darlings, Archer, Feminartsy, The Victorian Writer, Screen Education, and Mamamia. She is currently working on a fourth novel.
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Small Blessing
Through the unlikeliest of friendships comes a second chance
by Emily Brewin
Brewin reminds us we shouldn’t take anything for granted, and that change is always possible.’ KYD on Hello, Goodbye
Small Blessings is a poignant and uplifting tale of secrets, motherhood, innocence and heartache, and ultimately what we’re willing to do for love.
‘a powerful debut that will capture your heart…’ Sam Still Reading on Hello, Goodbye
Rosie Larson doesn’t trust people – and with good reason. Her violent ex-boyfriend, Joel, is out of jail and she’s determined he won’t find her or their eleven-year-old son.
For Isobel Hutchins, the cost of success is beginning to prove too high. Her impressive career and comfortable lifestyle can’t protect her from the news her mother is dying or the need to face her past.
When tragedy strikes, Rosie and Isobel are thrown together despite their differences. In this difficult space, they draw strength from each other and form an unlikely friendship that may just see them through.
Small Blessings is a poignant and uplifting tale of secrets, motherhood, innocence and heartache, and ultimately what we’re willing to do for love.
Small Blessings
Small Blessings
For Isobel Hutchins, the cost of success is beginning to prove too high. Her impressive career and comfortable lifestyle can’t protect her from the news her mother is dying or the need to face her past.
A four-course novel writing series designed to take you from inspiration to publication.
-Emily Brewin
Hello Goodbye
by Emily Brewin
Hello, Goodbye is her first novel. Her second, Small Blessings, is due for release with Allen & Unwin in February 2019.
She has been awarded an Australian Society of Authors Emerging Writers’ and Illustrators’ Mentorship for her fiction writing, and has been shortlisted for Hachette Australia’s Manuscript Development Program and Varuna’s Publisher Introduction Program. She was recently awarded a 2018 Moreland writer’s residency and a 2018 Bundanon Trust artist residency to develop her third novel, The Piano.
conspiracy
It's 1968 and free-thinking country girl May Callaghan's world is turned upside down when she finds out she's pregnant to her boyfriend Sam, who is awaiting draft orders. A profoundly moving story of love during a time of great social change, with an ending that will leave you cheering.
Her devoutly religious mother and her gentle but damaged father are fighting, and May’s boyfriend, Sam, has left their rural hometown for Melbourne without so much as a backward glance.
When May lies to her parents and takes the train to visit Sam at his shared house in Carlton, her world opens wide in glorious complexity. She is introduced to his housemates, Clancy, an indigenous university student, and Ruby, a wild bohemian. With their liberal thinking and opposition to the war in Vietnam, they are everything that May’s strict Catholic upbringing should warn her against.
May knows too well the toll that war has taken on her father, and the peace movement in the city has a profound effect on her. For a while, May’s future burns bright. But then it begins to unravel, and something happens to her that will change her life forever.