Join us with Imogen Crimp and Claire Fuller to discuss their latest novels, Give Me Everything You've Got and Hunger and Thirst.About this Event
Join us with Imogen Crimp and Claire Fuller to discuss their latest novels, 'Give Me Everything You've Got' , An electrifying, sultry and deliciously dark exploration of sex, power and art, and 'Hunger and Thirst', a compelling and chilling tale of loneliness and female friendship, of the dangerous line between wanting and needing, and of how far a person will go to truly belong.GIVE ME EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT
Ruby has spent her twenties scraping by in unfulfilling jobs. But now she’s tasting her first success as a film director – and she’s caught the eye of Ellen, an iconoclastic feminist filmmaker, critical darling and Ruby’s idol. When Ellen invites Ruby down to her sprawling country house and offers to mentor her through writing her next film, Ruby can’t believe her luck. Arriving in the middle of an oppressive heat wave, she is overawed by the glamour of the house – and finds herself quickly drawn into the middle of a dangerous dynamic between Ellen and her elusive daughter Lara. Because Ellen and Lara, it seems, like to play games with promising young women. As tensions escalate, Ruby begins to ask herself: why was she brought here, and what exactly do these two women want from her?
HUNGER AND THIRST
1987: After a childhood trauma and years in and out of the care system, sixteen-year-old Ursula finds herself with a new job delivering mail at a local art school, a bed in a halfway house, and—delightfully— some new friends, including wild-child, Sue. When Ursula is invited to join a squat at the Underwood, a mysterious house whose owners met a terrible end, she can’t resist this hodgepodge family. But as Sue’s behavior and demands become more extreme, Ursula who has always been hungry—for food—and more importantly for love, acceptance and belonging carries out her friend’s terrible dare. And, for this, Ursula finds herself haunted—literally haunted.Thirty-six years later, Ursula is a renowned, reclusive sculptor living under a pseudonym in London when her identity is exposed by true-crime documentary-maker, Emma Zahini who is digging into an unsolved disappearance. But it is not only the filmmaker who has discovered Ursula’s whereabouts, and as her past catches up with her present, Ursula must work out whether the monsters are within her or without.
Imogen Crimp's debut novel A Very Nice Girl was shortlisted for the Betty Trask Prize, selected for Malala Yousafzai's Fearless Book Club and chosen as a book of the year by the Sunday Times, Vogue, Grazia and Esquire. She lives in London.
Claire Fuller is the acclaimed author of Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the Desmond Elliott Prize; Swimming Lessons; Bitter Orange; Unsettled Ground, which won the Costa Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction; and The Memory of Animals. She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband.
Event Venue
Waterstones, 11 Islington Green, London, United Kingdom
GBP 5.00 to GBP 21.00
