Photos: Author Alice Pung, the cover of One Hundred Days, audience members at The Gardens Function Centre for the Gala Dinner, Alice in conversation with interviewer Sally Bryant, Alice mid-interview, and a view of Alice and Sally from the audience.

The novel selected for One Book One Wagga 2022 was One Hundred Days by Alice Pung.

One Hundred Days is a fractured fairytale exploring the faultlines between love and control. At times tense and claustrophobic, it is nevertheless brimming with humour, warmth and character. It is a magnificent new work from one of Australia’s most celebrated writers.

‘The tale of mothers and daughters the world over, this is truly fiction at its fiercest. It is a masterpiece, a triumph.’ —Maxine Beneba Clarke

‘Pung’s command as a writer is astonishing, elating. I adore this book.’ —Christos Tsiolkas."

Hundreds of library members borrowed One Hundred Days, and The Gardens Function Centre in the Wagga Botanic Gardens was fully packed for the Gala Dinner, with interviewer Sally Bryant, on Friday 20th May 2022.

One Hundred Days went on to be shortlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award, The Voss Literary Prize, the Best Designed Commercial Fiction Award, the Australian Book Design Awards, and longlisted for the 2022 ABIA Award, Literary Fiction.