About this Event
Three friends on a precipice. Maggie, Harley and Róise are still grieving the tragic and sudden death of their friend Lydia, whose room remains untouched and empty in their shared house. Meanwhile, the world has kept turning and the three find themselves standing at the end of their twenties, unsure which way to go. Backwards is wishful but impossible, and Thirst Trap follows them as they endure a painful, bittersweet and often comedic entrance into the next stage of life.
Thirst Trap is an ode to the friendships that survive the very best and the very worst of times.
Gráinne O’Hare is a writer from Belfast based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She received a Northern Debut Award for Fiction from New Writing North in 2022, and was awarded funding by the Arts Council in 2023 for the development and completion of her first novel. She has also been shortlisted for the Francis MacManus Short Story Competition and the Bridport Prize, and came in the top three of the Benedict Kiely Short Story Competition in 2021 and 2022. She is Media Sub-Editor of Criticks reviews for the British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies, and is currently completing a PhD on eighteenth-century women's life-writing at Newcastle University. Thirst Trap is her first novel.
Alice Slater is a writer and ex-bookseller from London. Her debut novel, Death of a Bookseller, was an instant Sunday Times bestseller and won Debut Crime Book of the Year at Capital Crime’s Fingerprint Awards 2024. She co-hosts literary podcast What Page Are You On? and her second novel, Let the Bad Times Roll, is out now.
The discussion will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing. Your ticket includes a complimentary glass of wine.
Tickets: £10 General Admission, £8 Foyalty Member / £12 Book and Ticket, inc. a copy of Thirst Trap (RRP £9.99)
Venue: The Auditorium (Level 6) at Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road*
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 8.00 to GBP 12.00
