Who will you meet at the YPRL live reads Booklovers Festival?

Iola Matthews

Ivanhoe Library
Monday 7 June
7.00pm-8.00pm

Iola Mathews OAM is a former journalist with The Age and author of How to use the media in Australia. She worked at the ACTU as an industrial officer and advocate specialising in women’s employment, for which she was awarded an Order of Australia Medal. More recently she established writers’ studios in the National Trust property ‘Glenfern’ and her most recent book is My Mother, My Writing and Me, a memoir.

About the book:

After a busy career Iola Mathews found herself in her mid-fifties feeling washed up. She wanted to leave her job in order to write but spent most of her free time caring for her elderly mother and her pregnant daughter.

Iola was trapped in a dilemma familiar to many women – how to nurture her own needs without neglecting her responsibility to the people she loved. The birth of a new grandchild gave her joy, but her mother’s decline made Iola face up to her own mortality. Her memoir explores many of the issues facing women in their fifties and sixties.

Booking required: phone Ivanhoe library on 9497 5780, or book online at www.yprl.vic.gov.au

Books by Iola Matthews will be available for sale and signing.