About this Event
🎉 Join us for a special evening with Tuppence Middleton! 🎉
Come along on Tuesday 7 July to Gower Street Waterstones for an inspiring and unmissable evening as Tuppence Middleton discusses her debut memoir, Scorpions 💖📖 Expect great conversation, insight, and plenty of bookish buzz!
✨ Event Details ✨
📅 Date: Tuesday 7 July
⏰ Time: 6:45–9:00pm
📍 Location: Gower Street Waterstones, 82 Gower St, London WC1E 6EQ
☕ Food & Drinks:
The café will be open until 8:00pm, so you can grab drinks and refreshments during the evening 🍰🥤
📚 Book Purchases:
Copies of Scorpions 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 Tuppence Middleton:
Tuppence Middleton is a British actor and writer working in film, television and theatre. She grew up in Somerset, South West England and has lived with OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) since the age of 11. Tuppence now lives in London with her partner and daughter. Scorpions is her first book.
About Scorpions:
My mind is full of scorpions. A cerebral itch, impossible to scratch. I know these creatures well, but they know me better. They answer to another name, this nest of scorpions, the writhing black mass that lives inside my head…
For as long as Tuppence Middleton can remember, she has struggled with obsessive thoughts and compulsions. She visualises her OCD as scorpions inhabiting her mind, something to be hidden that impacts her life daily:
- Have I killed my cat?
- When was the last time that person in front of me vomited?
- How many people have touched this door handle since it was cleaned?
- Should I tap the outside of the airplane to save my loved ones from harm?
Often used as a shorthand for tidiness or as the punchline of a joke, OCD is one of society’s most misunderstood disorders and it’s rarely spoken about with such honesty and openness.
Beautifully written, moving and often darkly funny, Tuppence recounts what it feels like to share your mind with a nest of scorpions.
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:
We are over the moon that our events are becoming so popular, so because of that we have made are operating a no refund policy. We are more than happy for you to use your ticket for a future book club, or to give your ticket to a fellow book club member, but as of 2024 - we will no longer giving refunds. Apologies in advance!
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Waterstones, 82 Gower Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 7.21 to GBP 22.38
