Author Talk: Lauren K. McKellar - 'The Calendar Mums'

Name: Author Talk: Lauren K. McKellar - 'The Calendar Mums'
Start: 2025-03-27T10:00:00+11:00
End: 2025-03-27T12:00:00+11:00
Location: Wingham Library,20 Wynter Street,Wingham,2429,AU

Schedule

Thu Mar 27 2025 at 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC+11:00

Location

Wingham Library,20 Wynter Street,Wingham,2429,AU | Taree, NS

Join us for a lively discussion celebrating The Calendar Mums , a debut women’s fiction novel by Lauren K. McKellar. Exploring themes of friendship, identity, and motherhood, this funny and touching story follows a group of new mothers who band together to save their community centre. Along the way, they uncover secrets, confront their fears, and forge powerful new connections.
About the author
Lauren K. McKellar is an author and mother who lives in a beachside town north of Sydney. She has written 19 romance novels and is known for her heartfelt, emotional storytelling. The Calendar Mums is her first venture into women’s fiction, blending humor and emotion to explore the realities of motherhood and friendship. When she's not writing, she’s navigating the joys (and challenges) of parenting.
About the book
The Calendar Mums follows a group of mothers in a small town who create a nude calendar to raise funds for their local community centre. As they strip away their clothes, they begin to strip away their emotional barriers, confronting issues of post-partum mental health, guilt, and loneliness.
Through humor, heartache, and raw emotion, the women reclaim their identities and discover the strength in their shared experiences. This heartwarming novel reminds us all that mothers are strong, capable women deserving of recognition beyond their roles as caregivers.
Bookings essential.