MidCoast Libraries will welcome a return visit by North Coast author Kim Hodges in May as she launches her second book, Girl over the Edge at Taree, Forster and Tea Gardens.
Kim Hodges will visit Taree library on Thursday, May 3 at 1pm, and then Forster at 10am and Tea Gardens at 2pm on Friday, May 4.
This will be an opportunity to hear firsthand from someone who has experienced deep depression and battled to overcome bipolar disorder.
Girl over the Edge is Kim's raw memoir, detailing her lived experience of mental illness over five years, taking the reader into severe episodes of depression, on the road to recovery and everything else in between.
Kim visited Taree library in 2016 when her first book Girl on the Edge was released, and says her new book "captures the denial, stigma and shame I have in my own mind about mental illness; the debilitating physical and mental agony of the illness; engagements with health professionals, and facing my own mortality".
There is no charge to attend but spaces are limited. Book online at www.midcoastlibraries.com.au.
What’s on this weekend
Friday
- Rudi’s Market, 8am to 2pm at 12 Kanangra Drive Taree.
- Beeswax wraps workshop at the Hallidays Point Library, 2.30pm to 4.30pm.
- ANZ Junior Tennis Tournament begins at Forster Tennis Club. Runs until Sunday.
Saturday
- Mount George Village Markets, 8am to noon at Mount George Hall.
- Nabiac Markets, 8am to noon at Nabiac Showground.
- Three Brothers Farm Produce Market, 8am to noon at Johns River Community Hall
- Tuncurry Markets, 8am to 1pm at John Wright Park Tuncurry.
- Barrington Community Markets, 8.30am to noon at Barrington Community Hall.
- Glitz n’ Glamour Ball, 7.30pm to 1am at Marlee Hall. Adult tickets: $15.
- Estia Health Autumn Market, 8am to noon at 42 Spinifex Road Tea Gardens.
Sunday
- Harrington Farmers Market, 8.30am to 1pm at Oxley Reserve Harrington.
- Pacific Palms Markets, 9am to 1pm at Pacific Palms Community Centre.
