Join authors Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion they discuss, The Oasis, the second novel in the Menzies Mental Health series.

Friday 28 February, 12.30 - 1.30pm at Manly Library

In The Oasis we again join Doctor Hannah Wright, now a trainee psychiatrist, as she struggles to navigate the challenges of her new role at the outpatient clinic.

Written with great humanity and humour, Australian psychiatrist Anne Buist and internationally bestselling author Graeme Simsion (The Rosie Project) welcome us into the world of mental health with compassion and insight.

$5.00 + booking fee. Bookings essential. 

Books will be available for purchase and signing on the day.

Light afternoon tea on arrival.

Enquiries: 8495 5028 or libraryprograms@northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au

Professor Anne Buist is chair of Women's Mental Health at the University of Melbourne and the architect of the national screening program for perinatal depression. She began writing at eight but medicine intervened until 2015 when she wrote Medea's Curse, the first of five psychological crime novels. The internationally bestselling Two Steps Forward, co-authored with her husband, Graeme Simsion, was optioned to Fox Searchlight / Disney, along with its sequel, Two Steps Onward.

Dr Graeme Simsion is the author of the widely acclaimed novel The Rosie Project, which spent 65 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, and, with its two sequels, has sold seven million copies in forty languages. A film is in development with Sony Pictures. The Best of Adam Sharp, also an international bestseller, is in development with New Sparta Pictures and Creative Differences was optioned to Truce Films.