Please join us for the launch of Bad Archive, the debut book by Flora Feltham. Bad Archive will be launched by Thomasin Sleigh, author of The Words for Her.

Thursday 18 July
6pm
Unity Books Wellington
57 Willis Street, Wellington
View more info on our Facebook page.

All welcome!

From the winner of the Letteri Family Prize for Nonfiction, Bad Archive is a collection of bold, beautiful and constantly surprising essays about life, loss, joy and the fabric of memory. 

In this deftly woven work Flora Feltham explores the corners where her memories are stashed: the archive vault, her mother’s house, a marriage counsellor’s office, the tip and New World. She takes us on a frenzied bender in Croatia, learns tapestry and meets romance novelists, all while wondering how families and relationships absorb the past, given everything we don’t say about grief, mental illness or even love. Most importantly, she asks, how do you write about a life honestly – when there are so many flaws in the way we record history and, more confrontingly, in the way we remember?