You could not get two more different women on one screen. On the left: Dua Lipa, English-Albanian celebrity singer, songwriter, actress. On the right: Helen Garner, Australian writer. They are having a lively conversation of mutual respect, thoughtfulness and curiosity.

When approached for an interview for the singer’s Service95 Book Club, Garner had to ask her grandsons who Dua Lipa was. The boys were suitably gobsmacked. But despite the fact their worlds are poles apart, these two women appear to be getting on really well. They are discussing Garner’s book This House of Grief , her 2014 account of the trial of Robert Farquhar, accused of murder after he drove his three sons into a dam.

Singer Dua Lipa promoting Helen Garner’s This House of Grief on the book club. Credit: Instag

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