Amy Twigg in conversation with Yasmina Floyer - Enfield Church St

We’re delighted to welcome Amy Twigg to Waterstones, Enfield as we celebrate the publication of her debut novel, Spoilt Creatures.

Amy Twigg was born and raised in Kent. After studying Creative Writing at university, she moved to Surrey where she works as a freelance copywriter. Her debut novel, Spoilt Creatures, won the BPA Pitch Prize and was longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition and Blue Pencil Agency First Novel Award.

She is also an alumnus of the Curtis Brown Creative novel writing course.

Spoilt Creatures follows Iris: adrift, thirty-two, newly single, living at home with her mother and working a dead end job. Her life changes when she meets the mysterious and beguiling Hazel, who lives at a women's commune on a remote farm hidden in the Kent Downs. At the farm, the women can be loud and dirty, live and eat abundantly, under the leadership of the gargantuan Blythe.
Drawn to Hazel and the possibility of a new start away from a world of men who have only let her down, Iris throws herself into this alternative way of life, seizing on new experiences and hidden desires. But even among the women, she witnesses power struggles, cruelty and transgressions thatthreaten their precarious existence. When a group of men arrive on the farm, the commune's existence is thrown into question, culminating in an act of devastating violence.

Amy will be hosted by writer and journalist Yasmina Floyer.

Host or Publisher Waterstones