Bright Shining – Julia Baird | NT Writers' Festival 2024

Grace is an enigmatic quality, but its impacts are often profound.

It can be found in unexpected acts of kindness, in creating connections that build upon our shared humanity, in forgiving the unforgivable and favouring those who don’t deserve it. Far from something glib or easy, acting with grace is challenging work, especially in our troubled times, when social media and political distrust tends to atomise and divide us.

So what does grace look like in our world? How do we recognise, cultivate and express it?

In Julia Baird’s luminous new book, the award-winning journalist and author of the acclaimed bestseller, Phosphorescence, offers an insightful and timely exploration of this mysterious but much needed quality. Don’t miss this chance to see Julia discussing the nature of grace in the modern world with ABC Darwin’s Liz Trevaskis.

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