Blayney Library: Kim Kelly Launches Touched

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Support local author Kim Kelly launching her latest book Touched about her experience with anxiety.

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Support local author Kim Kelly’s when she launches her latest book Touched at Blayney Library on Tuesday 2 December at 10.30am.Kim Kelly is author of several novels, including The Rat Catcher: A Love Story, which was longlisted for the ARA Historical Novel Prize, and Ladies’ Rest and Writing Room which won the 2024 Non-Fiction 20/40 Finlay Publishing Prize.Kim is also currently in the midst of PhD research at Macquarie University. Her recently published lyric essay on kidney donation appears in the anthology Writing Illness and Disability: Poised on the Pointe of Pain: Nureyev’s Foot and Other Essays.Her latest book Touched won the 2025 Non-Fiction 20/40 Finlay Lloyd Publishing Prize.The judging panel said “documenting the damaging role of anxiety in our lives is hardly new, but Touched takes us inside the destabilising riot of a three-day panic attack with such insight, honesty and humour that the perspective we gain is revelatory and overwhelmingly hopeful.”“This book has a wonderful breadth of understanding—of the author’s own crazily complex family, of the wider issue of anxiety across society, and of her own voyage as a highly competent yet vulnerable being in a worryingly unhinged world.”Copies of Touched will be available for sale and signing on the day for $26 each.

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