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Saturday 26 February
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Dinner with the Stars 6.30 — 9.00 pm

Come and chat with our authors over dinner.
Numbers are limited.
Admission: $55
Venue: Mint Cafe and Bar
Bookings: Essential: Royal Whanganui Opera House

Life in Transition 10.00 — 11.00 am

Kyle Mewburn grew up in
the sunburnt, unsophisticated
Brisbane suburbs of the 1960s
and ‘70s with little love, no books
and a lifelong feeling of being
somehow wrong – like ‘straw-
berry jam in a spinach can’.
Kyle describes this and her
journey to becoming her own
person – a celebrated children’s
book author, a husband and,
finally, a woman.
Her awards include the 2010 NZ
Book of the Year for Old Hu-hu
as well as numerous Children’s
Choice awards.
She shares dreams, prejudice
and the agony of growing up
trans, plus a lengthy ordeal of
facial feminisation surgery.

Candid, funny and emotionally
powerful, this is writer Kyle
Mewburn’s true story of growing
up transgender.

Venue: Royal Whanganui Opera House
Bookings: Royal Whanganui Opera House
Admission: $15. Door sales available
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