Salon LIVE Online: Dolly Alderton, Friday 23rd October 8-9pm (UK time)

Dolly Alderton goes deep on love, laughter and loss in her debut novel Ghosts.

Dolly Alderton really is our Nora Ephron – her observations, in her writing or on the High Low podcast, go right to the heart of whatever she’s trained her generous attention on. She makes us laugh and she makes us think and she reveals the profundity of seemingly everyday dramas. Her first novel, Ghosts, follows the runaway success of her memoir Everything I Know About Love.

In Ghosts, Nina George Dean has made it to her early thirties as a successful food writer with adoring friends and family (the George comes from George Michael being number one on the day she was born). Daring to date on an app, she meets Max, a classic romcom hero who tells her on their first date that he's going to marry her. So, it seems like everything is going to plan for Nina.

Seems like.

Because Nina’s thirties have not been the liberating, uncomplicated experience she was promised as she toiled and twirled through her twenties. Everywhere she turns, she sees time passing and opportunities dwindling. Every choice is one door closing. Friendships are fading, ex-boyfriends are finally moving on and, worse, people she knows are moving to the suburbs. Her mother is caught in a baffling mid-life makeover and her beloved dad is slowly vanishing into dementia.

Dolly Alderton's debut novel is everything you’d hope for: funny and tender, filled with whip-smart observations about relationships, family, and how we (think we) live now. I can’t wait to talk her about all of it!

Join Dolly and Damian online from 8-9pm (UK Time). This event will happen via a private YouTube stream so you don’t have to worry about dressing up for Zoom. You’ll be able to post questions and mingle in the chat before, during and after with the chance to chat directly with Dolly. Tickets are £5 and every ticket bought enters you for the chance to win a copy of Ghosts.

We look forward to you joining us!

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Garth Greenwell and Damian Barr talk writing, queerness and 'Cleanness'.

Garth charmed us all at our Salon at The Savoy in 2016 with his debut novel 'What Belongs to You'. He reads his prose as beautifully as he writes it. His next book, 'Cleanness', places its arms around the shoulders of his handsome sensuous debut and confronts many of the same themes and concerns, yet is very much its own thing. Like his first book, 'Cleanness' features an unnamed American teacher working in Sofia, Bulgaria who falls for a man with whom he experiences pleasure and pain and a certain amount of pleasure in pain. If you’re looking for a straightforward narrative, this is not it. If you’re looking for a musical meditation on the lures, limits and dangers of desire which will stimulate your mind and other regions, you’ve come to the right place. I can’t stop thinking about it.

Join Garth Greenwell and Damian Barr for a post-watershed conversation online.

This event will happen via Zoom. Tickets are £5 (This is a lockdown price and only available during these unprecedented times). We look forward to you joining us.

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