Soft Serve

Author:   George Kemp
Publisher:   University of Queensland Press
ISBN:  

9780702269134


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   03 February 2026
Format:   Paperback
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Soft Serve


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A gem of a debut novel by award-winning playwright George Kemp, about small-town lives and the search for genuine sustenance in a fast-food world. Stuck in a regional McDonald's, as bushfires close in, three twenty-somethings and their dead friend's mum all face a reckoning. Fern longs for Ethan, Ethan longs for Jacob, and Jacob struggles to long for anything. Meanwhile, Pat just wants her grief to ease up. Soft Serve proves that small-town lives are huge, and that anyone can get stuck in limbo between their past and their hoped-for future. From celebrated playwright and actor George Kemp comes this charming and poignant novel- it's drive-thru Chekhov ... full of wit and heart.

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Author:   George Kemp
Publisher:   University of Queensland Press
Imprint:   University of Queensland Press
Dimensions:   Width: 0.10cm , Height: 0.10cm , Length: 0.10cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9780702269134


ISBN 10:   0702269131
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   03 February 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Not yet available   Availability explained
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George Kemp is a writer for stage, page and screen, based on Gadigal land. He was selected to be part of the Faber Academy in 2023-24, during which he completed the first draft of Soft Serve. His award-winning play Shack has been performed frequently around the country and internationally, and is included on the new NSW Drama Curriculum. George has had a successful career as an actor across Australia and England, in productions such as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Cyrano de Bergerac (Sydney Theatre Company) and national and international tours of The Play That Goes Wrong and Peter Pan Goes Wrong. He is also a passionate educator and mentor of actors and writers and is currently Resident Artist at Australian Theatre for Young People. Soft Serve is his debut novel.

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