Toni Jordan at Mooroolbark Library
Sat, 25 Oct
|Mooroolbark
Come and meet Melbourne author Toni Jordan as she introduces us to her eighth novel Tenderfoot.
Time & Location
25 Oct 2025, 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Mooroolbark, 7A Station St, Mooroolbark VIC 3138, Australia
About the event
Toni is the author of the international bestseller Addition, which was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and has been adapted into a feature film, in cinemas in 2025. Her novel Nine Days was awarded Best Fiction at the 2012 Indie Awards and her two recent Schnabel family novels, Dinner with the Schnabels and Prettier if She Smiled More, were critically acclaimed.
Tenderfoot is an exhilarating novel about coming of age in 1970s Australia.
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…