Tuesday 22 September
6:30-9pm
Join author Natasha Bell for an evening of conversation and celebration of the launch of her brand-new metafictional tour de force, Maybe the World Will End So We Won’t Have To.
Author Harry is divorced, depressed, out of contract and unsure what she wants to do with the rest of her life. She invents a character Natalie – a braver, bolder version of herself – whom she begins channelling in small ways in her own life.
A metafictional tour de force, Maybe the World Will End So We Won’t Have To is a finely crafted literary autofiction about identity, sexuality and the work that goes into writing a novel. Brilliantly queer and feminist, and by turns funny and dark, it leaves us questioning the practice and ethics of being a writer.
'A fall into the metafictional abyss has never been so funny, or so absurdly inventive’ — Francis Spufford, author of Golden Hill
About Natasha
Natasha Bell is an author and researcher. Her novels This Nowhere Place (2021) and His Perfect Wife (2018) are published by Penguin. She lived and studied in York and Chicago in her twenties, then moved to London for her thirties, where she completed an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths. She teaches novel-writing for Faber Academy, City Lit and Jericho Writers, and lives in Southwark with her wife and son.