Joanna Nell: After-hours at the bookshop
Wed, 05 Nov
|The Bookshop Bowral
Local book launch for The Funeral Crashers: delightfully heartwarming story from bestselling author of Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year.
Time & Location
05 Nov 2025, 5:30 pm
The Bookshop Bowral, 309 Bong Bong St, Bowral NSW 2576, Australia
About & Ticket Info
Join us for an intimate in-store launch event for The Funeral Crashers, the heartwarming new story by Joanna Nell.
At this special event, Joanna will be in conversation with The Bookshop Bowral's own Clare Meldrum - and there'll be plenty of time for you to ask your own questions too.
About The Funeral Crashers
Retired academic Martin Pottinger's romantic aspirations for the delectable head of his former university's archaeology department, Professor Mary Blake, seem about to be realised. If only he could devise a plan to manage the demands of his eccentric elderly mother, Edwina.
Recently bereaved Grace Cavendish spends her days helping out at All Souls Church, making it her mission to drown out the Reverend Rod's tone-deaf hymn-singing and give each funeral recipient a hearty send-off. Yet the peace she craves remains elusive despite the comforts offered by psychic medium Rhondda and her eight-year-old son, Hudson.
When Martin and Grace meet and bond at an All Souls service, they unwittingly set off a chain of events with far-reaching consequences. They become funeral crashers. But who could have predicted that crashing funerals might have such life-changing and life-affirming outcomes?
About Joanna Nell
Joanna Nell is a British-Australian writer, GP and advocate for positive ageing. Her essays and short fiction have won multiple awards and been widely published in magazines, journals and literary anthologies. Her first five novels, The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village, The Last Voyage of Mrs Henry Parker, The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home, The Tea Ladies of St Jude's Hospital and Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year, were national bestsellers. Joanna lives on Sydney's Northern Beaches.
More about the event
Joanna will chat with Clare Meldrum about her new book and her writing life. Audience members will also be invited to ask questions, and a book-signing will follow.
This is an in-store event.
Tickets on Sale: 07/10/2025 at 9am