Join us on 7th February at 6pm to hear Costa Prize winning author Caleb Azumah Nelson discuss his debut novel Open Water.
Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships to private schools where they struggled to belong, both are now artists - he a photographer, she a dancer - trying to make their mark in a city that by turns celebrates and rejects them. Tentatively, tenderly, they fall in love. But two people who seem destined to be together can still be torn apart by fear and violence.
At once an achingly beautiful love story and a potent insight into race and masculinity, Open Water asks what it means to be a person in a world that sees you only as a Black body, to be vulnerable when you are only respected for strength, to find safety in love, only to lose it. With gorgeous, soulful intensity, Caleb Azumah Nelson has written the most essential British debut of recent years.
Tickets are £9 each and include a copy of Open Water. To book your ticket, click here. If you cannot make it to the event but would like to purchase a signed and dedicated copy of Open Water, you can do so by clicking here.
Please note that this event is taking place externally at Worldly Wicked and Wise, 81 Salusbury Rd, London NW6 6NH.
