Irma Gold - Shift

Book Launch

Join Irma Gold as her latest novel, Shift is launched by bestselling author Karen Viggers. Drinks available from the bar, Shift available to purchase thanks to Harry Hartog.

This is a free event, but reservations are essential. Please RSVP with name and telephone number via rsvp@thestreet.org.au

About Shift

In the year of the 70th anniversary of the Freedom Charter – which outlined the principles of democracy and freedom in South Africa – comes a novel set in the township where it was signed.

Arlie is a moderately successful thirty-something photographer who can’t seem to get his shit together. He can’t hold onto a girlfriend, or much else, and his relationship with his parents is complicated. His agoraphobic mother, Dellie, has long drawn a silence over her South African upbringing. The more she refuses to illuminate, the more Arlie wants to know.

Gutsy and gripping, tender and deeply compassionate, Shift is a compulsively readable story about the messy process of art- making, and the mess of love and family.

"Evocative, propulsive and heartbreaking, Shift is a novel that can change the way you think." - Rochelle Siemienowicz, Double Happiness