With special guests:
- Maggie Hamilton, author of What Men Don’t Talk About says “writing this book… was prompted by my growing unease at the many assumptions I had made about men. While I’d been happy to believe that… men were never vulnerable, when I took a closer look at men, I began to realise this wasn’t the case… I realised that the many dilemmas men grapped with, the pain they felt, were largely invisible.”
- Nick Gleeson from Vision Australia has two children, lost his sight when he was seven years old after colliding with a supermarket door. After successfully competing in the gruelling Comrades 90km marathon run in South Africa in 2000, he climbed the challenging Mt Kilimanjaro, highest peak in Africa and was the first blind Australian to make it to the summit.
Here is a blurb about Maggie Hamilton’s book What Men Don’t Talk About:
What do men long for, agonise over, aspire to? Why is it men are often silent in dark and dangerous, or difficult situations? Why do so many men find it hard to express how much they care? What do they look for in women? What do they want from committed relationships, from friendships? What motivates them? What do they worry about? How do they see their bodies, their world? What is life like for them as they age? Why do so many resort to suicide?
Every day we read articles about men - men at home, men at work, men in bed - but still the confusion and frustration between the sexes remain. Can we put the differences between men and women down to the influence of Venus and Mars, or are there more intricate dynamics at play?