Rebecca Watson – I Will Crash
WithRebecca Watson
In conversation withDaisy Lafarge
On:25th July 2024, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Attendance options:
We're thrilled to welcome Rebecca Watson to the bookshop to discuss her latest novel, I Will Crash. From the author of the acclaimed little scratch comes a powerful novel about how we love, how we grieve and how we forgive and we're really looking forward to hearing more about it. Watson will be in conversation with fellow writer Daisy Lafarge.
This event will take place in the bookshop with an in-person audience. There will be a signing after the event.
Vouchers can be redeemed on the night of the event against a single copy of I Will Crash – we will have a list of attendees with vouchers to be redeemed. Please note that only one voucher can be redeemed per book.
Please note that I Will Crash is published on 4th July. If you have signed up for a Book & In-Person option and would like to receive your copy ahead of the event on Thursday 25th July, please get in touch via our contact form and we'll be happy to help.
About I Will Crash:
It was a peace offering, I knew that
you don't appear on someone's doorstep uninvited,
saying Alright
unless you want to make amends
It's been six years since Rosa last saw her brother. Six years since they last spoke. Six years since they last fought. Six years since she gave up on the idea of having a brother.
She's spent that time carefully not thinking about him. Not remembering their childhood. Not mentioning those stories, even to the people she loves.
Now the distance she had so carefully put between them has collapsed. Can she find a way to make peace - to forgive, to be forgiven - when the past she's worked so hard to contain threatens to spill over into the present?
From the acclaimed author of little scratch, this is a moving, powerfully honest novel about how we love, how we grieve and how we forgive.
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Participants:
Rebecca Watson Author
Rebecca Watson is the author of little scratch. which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize. She is one of the Observer's ten best debut novelists of 2021. Her work has been published in the TLS, the Guardian, Granta and elsewhere. Watson's novel was adapted for the stage, with acclaimed runs at Hampstead Theatre and New Diorama. In 2022, she presented a documentary for Radio 4 - where her short stories have also aired. She works part-time as assistant arts editor at the Financial Times and lives in London.
Daisy Lafarge Chair
Daisy Lafarge is the author of a novel, Paul (Granta 2021) which won a Betty Trask Award and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice, and the poetry collection Life Without Air (Granta 2020), which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and awarded Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Lovebug, a short book on the poetics of infection, was published by Peninsula Press in 2023.
The venue
The Portobello Bookshop
46 Portobello High Street
Edinburgh
EH15 1DA
Telephone: 0131 629 6756
Website: www.theportobellobookshop.com
Wheelchair Access
We have a ramp at the front of the shop which has a ratio of 1:10 and loading capacity of 300kg, and so should be able to be used by most wheelchair users or those with mobility vehicles. The front doors are fully automated. Our shop interior is designed to allow access throughout for wheelchair users and prams, though please note there is only 700mm wide clearance to access the staff toilet.
Sound
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