Come along for hearty conversation, good company and cheese and wine with Melanie Cheng, the winner of the Fiction Award for the 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for her previous book, Australia Day.

Melanie is hosting Neighbourhood Book Club’s June 5th meeting to discuss her brilliant new book, Room For a Stranger.

Benjamin Law raves that Room for a Stranger is a joy to read: ‘Every year there’s an Australian novel everyone endlessly passes around and recommends because they bloody love it so much, and this is going to be 2019’s. Room for a Stranger explores the high stakes of quiet moments, reveals the beauty of unlikely connections and shows how the antidote to shame is always compassion. After reading this impossible-to-put-down novel, Melanie Cheng is quickly becoming my favourite Australian writer.’