Clare Stephens

She's a trained voice actor.

So if you wonder why her voice is so beautiful, that's one of the reasons.

She's a former actor, producer, and she wrote and starred in a series called 600 Bottles of Wine that was on Channel 10.

She's really talented.

here working with us and I'm like, sorry.

She is nice.

Anyway, even if we didn't know her, I would be recommending this.

So her memoir is about her friendship and it's like a love story with Katie Lees.

So it starts with they connect by bitching about someone who's in their acting class.

And what follows is a 13-year friendship that becomes the central, most important relationship of their lives.

There's beautiful, beautiful scenes where they are travelling in Europe together and it's just anybody who's had one of those formative friendships where you feel like you have found your person, it works.

it just really strikes a chord then katie dies suddenly and tragically so katie was you may have heard katie's name or you may know her story so katie was the healthy 34 year old living in redfin who died in august 2021 after receiving the astrazeneca vaccination there is nothing political in that statement it's just a fact

And Grace so expertly navigates the complexity of that when your politics go against your personal lived experience or when people assume that because of your lived experience you will have a certain set of politics.

And when you know that something is so rare and so tragic...

but the fact is that it happened to your best friend.

And she writes about, some of my favourite chapters are where Grace writes about getting her vaccination and having a panic attack.

She ends up having her baby daughter in the same hospital where she lost her best friend.

And it is just brilliant.

You will laugh at, you will laugh and smile at all the iterations of their friendship, all the in-jokes.

Yeah, so relatable.