Tuesday Book Club: The Things We Promise
Nic and Andrew Pople from Final Draft discuss Australian author JC Burke’s young adult fiction novel The Things We Promise, a coming-of-age drama set in the Australia of 1990. 16-year-old Gemma is eagerly awaiting her school formal, and her famous stylist brother Billy has made her the ultimate promise: he’s returning home from New York to ‘create magic’ for the big night. But when Billy and his partner Saul arrive, Gemma learns that they’re HIV positive, and is thrown into a world of societal prejudice and ignorance. Suddenly, Gemma’s formal dress is the least of her worries.
