Wed 24 April
6:30-9pm
Join bestselling authors Jennifer Belle and Emma Forrest as they discuss readers’ fascination with the Lolita narrative, and how writers can challenge it.
Jennifer Belle is the best-selling author of four novels, Going Down, High Maintenance, Little Stalker, and The Seven Year Bitch. Her latest novel, Swanna in Love, tells the story of a fourteen year old girl who, when she’s dragged to an artist colony by her irresponsible mother, falls in love with a married father of two. An excruciatingly funny and discomforting story of a young girl in love, Belle refuses to shy away from the foibles of the adults who repeatedly fail her.
Emma Forrest is a screenwriter, film director, novelist and author of the memoir Your Voice in My Head, which recounts her emotional and physical journey from Hollywood overload to solitude in North London with candour, lyricism and jet black humour. Her new book, Busy Being Free, is a beautiful, breath-taking, unputdownable memoir about love and heartbreak, sex and celibacy, growing up and starting again.