MATIA (UWAP, 2024)
I really enjoyed speaking with Andrew Pople about Matia on Final Draft - Great Conversations recently. Thanks to Andrew and the team at 2SER for the great show! Our conversation is now available wherever you get your podcasts, or here: Final Draft - Great ConversationsBooks Podcast · 400 Episodes · Updated WeeklyApple
Thank you to Anjelica Smilovitis and The Greek Herald for this lovely interview. I spoke to Anjelica while I was in Greece earlier this year. Emily Tsokos Purtill’s new novel ‘Matia’ traces Greek identity through four generationsThe Greek Herald spoke with Emily Tsokos Purtill on the release of her
Thank you to Emily Paull and The AU Review for this beautiful and generous review of Matia: 'This is a beautiful, heartfelt book about family, love and tradition, and the different ways to be a strong woman. With echoes of Melina Marchetta, this is sure to mark the launch
Matia has made its way into the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Brisbane Times and WA Today. Here is a quote from the review: "The ambivalences of migration play out through the tensions of mother-daughter relationships, on a domestic canvas which swims with lingering superstitions, trauma, and the intensely
Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to read and review Matia. Here are a small selection of the print and online reviews that have come in so far: “Through four different points of view, Tsokos Purtill excavates what it means to be a woman, particularly when traditional
