I’ll be doing a bunch of cool events across the UK for Bridge this year, including the Oxford Literary Festival, Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Festival, Cymera, WorldCon Glasgow and readings and talks with Adrian Tchaikovsky at cool bookstores various from Scotland to Bristol and Bath and Harrogate. First event is in March on the 20th, I’ll be in conversation with Georgina Moore at the Oxford Literary Festival talking family lives. Full schedule on my new Events page here, it will be regularly updated! Please do come hang out if I’m in your town!
“Bestselling novelists Lauren Beukes and Georgina Moore discuss family relationships, particularly between mothers and daughters, and their portrayal in their family dramas Bridge and The Garnett Girls.” Via Oxford Literary Festival
Via Oxford Literary Festival:
Beukes is author of The Shining Girls, which has been adapted by Apple TV, and Zoo City, winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Her latest novel is Bridge, the story of Bridge, whose maverick scientist mother Jo is dead. She examines everything Jo left behind and finds a big secret, but is it a drug or a gateway to another world?
The Garnett Girls is Moore’s first novel, and she was chosen as one of the Observer’s ten best new novelists of 2023. The novel is a story of love, sisterhood and what it means to be home. Margo’s silence over a relationship from the past is keeping her three daughters from finding true happiness. The novel asks whether children can ever be free of the mistakes of their parents.