Book Launch: Start at the End by Emma Grey in conversation with Barbie Robinson

Schedule

Sat, 04 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 am

UTC+11:00

Location

East Hotel | Canberra, CT

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Join us at East Hotel as we celebrate the launch of Emma Grey's new novel Start at the End. This powerful, emotional, sliding-doors novel from the bestselling author of The Last Love Note and Pictures of You is about love, loss, grief and hope, and asks if it is ever too late to start again. Emma will be joined in conversation by founder and principal of Living Arts Canberra, Barbie Robinson.
Tickets are $17 per person and you can pre-order the book for the launch special price of $30.

ABOUT THE BOOK
When Audrey and Fraser tumble into a love story for the ages, theirs is an epic, unbreakable bond – until one tragic moment up-ends everything.
Facing the unimaginable, wrestling with guilt, they're left haunted by 'what-ifs'.
Would their lives still have imploded if they'd done one little thing differently? Where would they be if events had unfolded the other way around?
Start at the End offers hope for those who think they'll never love again.

PRAISE FOR START AT THE END
'Emma Grey is an expert at pulling at the heartstrings. A compelling and emotionally rich story that celebrates love in all its wonderful and complicated forms. Start at the End is a warm, emotionally layered novel with characters you can't help but invest in.' Rachael Johns, author of The Lucky Sisters
'Equal parts tender, hilarious, and achingly perceptive, Start at the End broke my heart, and then swiftly put it back together again. I laughed, I ugly-cried, I absolutely loved it!' Pip Drysdale, author of The Close-Up

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Emma Grey is the author of six books, most recently the two international bestselling novels: The Last Love Note and Pictures of You, which have attracted multiple foreign translation deals and a TV option. Pictures of You won the gold medal in the American Independent Publisher Book Awards and was shortlisted in the ACT Literary Awards. She lives in Canberra, where her world centres on her three children, loved stepchildren, and stepgrandchildren, writing, photography, and endlessly chasing the aurora australis.
Emma lives just outside Canberra, where her world centres on her two adult daughters, young son, loved step-children and step-grandchildren, writing, photography and endlessly chasing the Aurora Australis.
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