Just a quick update to let you know that my second novel COMPLICIT will be hitting bookshelves this summer! You can pre-order the UK edition from Orion Fiction here (out on June 23), and the US edition from Emily Bestler Books / Atria Books (out on Aug 19) here. There’s even a very special limited UK edition (numbered & signed, with fancy sprayed edges), which you can get from Goldsboro Books in the UK here!
If you’d like to pre-order it, I’d be incredibly grateful. Pre-orders help both authors and booksellers immensely — and count towards a book’s crucial first week of sales. So any advance support will make a difference.
You are also very much invited to our special public launch event of COMPLICIT, which you can attend either online or in person at Birkbeck College, London on June 22 at 6:30pm. I’m especially thrilled to be in conversation with a distinguished panel of activists, writers and researchers about my novel: Marai Larasi, Professor Liz Kelly, Rowena Chiu, Katherine Angel, with the eminent historian Professor Joanna Bourke chairing. Reception and book signing to follow! For more information and to book tickets click here. (Book your ticket ASAP, as our bookseller needs to know how many copies of COMPLICIT to stock on the night!)
And if you live near Frome, Somerset, there’s also a nice in-person launch event there on June 23 where I’ll be in conversation with bestselling author Libby Page. In fact, I’ve got a busy line-up of events (both online and in person) this summer, so check out my events page if you’d like to come to one!
A mystery set in the world of filmmaking, COMPLICIT owes much to the stories that emerged in the #MeToo movement. But I also wanted to channel my own experiences working in the film industry as a young woman — and as a sexual violence survivor, who has done a lot of thinking and consulting on how we tell these kinds of stories in the media. While capturing my own passion for cinema, and the supposed fun and glamour of Hollywood, COMPLICIT questions how much our individual ambitions affect our moral decisions, when our workplaces are already such an unequal playing field.
So a great deal has gone into the writing of COMPLICIT. And it means a great deal to me that so many other authors — across a range of genres — have enjoyed it. COMPLICIT is included in The Irish Times’ List of Books to Look Out For In 2022, and book connoisseur Simon Savidge has tipped it as ‘one of the most talked-about books of the year.’ See below to see what other authors have been saying!
