TENDERFOOT Launch, Sydney
Thu, 11 Sept
|Glebe
In conversation with Michaela Kalowski
Time & Location
11 Sept 2025, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Glebe, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe NSW 2037, Australia
About the event
By the bestselling, award-winning author of Addition, an exhilarating novel about coming of age in 1970s Australia
Wait for the boxes to open, wait for the race to begin. Wait, and your greyhound will cease to be the dog you know and become an entirely different kind of animal.
Brisbane, 1975: Andie Tanner’s world is small but whole. Her mum is complicated, but she adores her dad and the kennel of racing greyhounds that live under their house. Andie is a serious girl with plans: finish school with her friends, then apprentice to her father until she can become a greyhound trainer, with dogs of her very own.But real life rarely goes to plan, and the world is bigger and more complicated than Andie could imagine. When she loses everything she cares about – her family, her friends, the dogs – it’s up to Andie to reclaim her future. She will need…