Join us on Wednesday 25 November from 7pm where we will be speaking with Louise O'Neill, discussing her brand-new book A Bigger LifeAbout this Event
🎉 Join us for a special evening with Louise O'Neill! 🎉
Come along on Wednesday 25 November to The Alpaca in Islignton for what is going to be a gorgeous evening with Louise O'Neill, where we discuss her brand-new book, A Bigger Life💖📖 Expect wonderful conversations, insights into Louise's life, and plenty of bookish chat!
✨ Event Details ✨
📅 Date: Wednesday 25 November
⏰ Time: 7:00–9:00pm
📍 Location: The Alpaca, Islington
☕ Food & Drinks:
The bar will be open all evening so you can grab drinks and refreshments during the evening
📚 Book Purchases:
Copies of A Bigger Life will be available to buy at the venue on the night
🎟️ Refunds & Tickets:
While we’re unable to offer refunds, if you can’t make it, your ticket can be transferred to a future event
✨ Don’t miss out on this exciting literary evening — we can’t wait to see you there! ✨
About Louise O'Neill:
Louise O’Neill is the feminist powerhouse and outspoken voice for change whose novels Only Ever Yours and Asking for It helped to start important conversations about body image and consent. Asking for It won Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards 2015 and stayed in the Irish Top Ten fiction chart for over a year. Only Ever Yours won Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and the Bookseller YA Prize. Film/TV rights have been optioned on both books. Louise lives and works in West Cork, Ireland. She contributes regularly to Irish TV and radio, and has a weekly column in the Irish Examiner.
About A Bigger Life:
Eat Pray Love for the Hinge era' – The Sunday Times Style
What happens when you stop trying to be the woman everyone wants you to be, and start asking what you want instead?
At 38, Louise O’Neill had the life she thought she wanted. The relationship. The home. The future. Then it all ended, taking with it not only the life she had built, but her certainty about what a successful, happy life was supposed to look like.
Heartbroken but restless, Louise decided not to rebuild the same life all over again. Inspired by her father’s advice to go out and live a bigger life, she began saying yes. To risk. To desire. To adventure. To the possibility that there might be another way to live.
What followed was an extraordinary dating odyssey across Paris, London and New York, meeting a different man each night. The stories are outrageous, intimate and frequently hilarious, but the men are only the beginning.
Because as Louise steps outside the life she thought she was supposed to want, she begins to question the rules that got her there in the first place. Why are women still taught to make themselves smaller, easier and more pliable to be loved? Why are we so frightened of ageing? How do we measure success when marriage and motherhood are no longer inevitable milestones? What has modern dating done to intimacy? And what does it mean to desire men at a moment when masculinity itself feels increasingly contested?
Turning her trademark sharp, fearless eye on ageing, beauty, sex, motherhood, modern masculinity, loneliness, ambition and the pressure to settle, Louise examines the contradictions of being a woman today while implicating herself in every one of them.
Fearlessly honest, fiercely intelligent and laugh-out-loud funny, A Bigger Life is a memoir about what happens when you stop shrinking yourself to fit the life you’ve been given and asks us all to reflect on the question at the heart of the book: What does it really mean to live a bigger life?
Readers can't resist falling in love with this extraordinary book:
Ticket prices:
Tickets for this event range from £6-20. If you cannot afford them then just drop us an email at: [email protected] and we'll see what we can do.
Refund policy:
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Event venue
The Alpaca, 84-86 Essex Road, London, United Kingdom
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