High Tea with Karma Brown and Lainey Lui

Photos by Girl Well Read

"In This Moment is a powerful and evocative story about the life-altering consequences of a single decision. [A] riveting tale." —Emily Giffin, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Karma Brown is one of my new favourite authors.  I had the pleasure of attending an event to celebrate her latest book In This Moment at a high tea and book signing at the King Eddy in Toronto, hosted by BookClubbish.  Guests enjoyed hot tea, finger sandwiches, and decadent desserts.  

Lainey Lui, as in gossip maven, etalk correspondent, co-host of The Social, and founder of laineygossip.com Lainey, joined Karma for a Q&A session.  The women chatted about the writing process—Lainey has also has written a book Listen to the Squawking Chicken: When Mother Knows Best, What's A Daughter To Do? A Memoir (Sort Of)—what it's like being a woman in the publishing industry, and where Karma gets her inspiration. 

In This Moment is an emotional and thought-provoking read that asks readers some challenging moral questions. Brown said of her main character, “I wanted to put Meg in a place where she only had her instincts as a person and as a woman. Meg is trying to be everything to everyone. But all it takes is one small wheel to fall off the bus for things to change.”   

Both ladies were well-spoken and super interesting!  If you have an opportunity to attend an event with Karma, I highly recommend you do so, you won't be disappointed.

In This Moment 

Meg Pepper has a fulfilling career and a happy family. Most days she’s able to keep it all together and glide through life. But then, in one unalterable moment, everything changes.

After school pickup one day, she stops her car to wave a teenage boy across the street…just as another car comes hurtling down the road and slams into him.

Meg can’t help but blame herself for her role in this horrific disaster. Full of remorse, she throws herself into helping the boy’s family as he rehabs from his injuries. But the more Meg tries to absolve herself, the more she alienates her own family—and the more she finds herself being drawn to the boy’s father, Andrew.

Soon Meg’s picture-perfect life is unravelling before her eyes. As the painful secrets she’s been burying bubble dangerously close to the surface, she will have to decide: Can she forgive herself, or will she risk losing everything she holds dear to her heart?

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KARMA BROWN has always loved the written word. As a kid she could usually be found with her face buried in a book, or writing stories about ice-skating elephants. Now that she’s (mostly) grown up, she’s a bestselling author whose debut novel, Come Away with Me, was a Globe & Mail Best 100 Books of 2015. Karma’s next two novels, The Choices We Make and In This Moment, also earned spots on both the Globe & Mail and Toronto Star bestseller lists.

A National Magazine Award winning journalist, Karma has been published in a variety of publications, including SELF, Redbook, Today’s Parent, Best Health, Canadian Living and Chatelaine.

Karma lives just outside Toronto, Canada with her husband, daughter, and a labradoodle named Fred.