Emily Lighezzolo in conversation

Maisie and Charlie meet at a life-drawing session as undergraduates: she’s the model, he’s an artist. Their immediate connection carries them across two decades as they navigate the slippery dynamics of friendship, estrangement and family.Emily Lighezzolo’s bold debut interrogates the collision of art and gaze, desire and consent, muse and meaning. This is a love story. At its core: a woman’s body – seen, touched, loved, hated, commodified and reclaimed.   Life Drawing is an award-winning and unflinching novel for our times. Hypothetically, would you want to live forever but be invisible, or have a short life and be seen? Hypothetically, would you give up wine forever or sex for ten years?Hypothetically, would you show a friend someone else’s nude?Emily Lighezzolo has worked in Australian publishing for nearly a decade.   Life Drawing won the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer at the Queensland Literary Awards and is her first book. She lives in Meanjin/Brisbane.