An Evening with Katriona O’Sullivan in Cambridge

Schedule

Wed May 06 2026 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Waterstones | Cambridge, EN

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Join bestselling author Katriona O’Sullivan as she discusses her powerful new memoir Hungry.
About this Event

Join bestselling author Katriona O’Sullivan as she discusses her powerful new memoir Hungry. With fierce honesty, she interrogates how trauma, class and gender shape the way women see themselves – and how society teaches them to measure their value. Both personal reckoning and powerful reclamation, this is a rallying cry for every woman who has ever felt she had to shrink to survive. She will be in conversation with award-winning journalist Donna Ferguson. Book signing to follow.

Dr Katriona O'Sullivanis a professor of psychology and the bestselling author ofPoor, winner of Biography of the Year and Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. The memoir has been translated into seven languages, adapted into a sold-out play at Dublin's Gate Theatre, and remained in Ireland's top-ten nonfiction chart for two years. Born in Coventry to Irish parents, her early life was marked by poverty, addiction, teenage pregnancy and homelessness. In 1998 she moved to Dublin, where she entered Trinity College through the access programme and went on to earn a PhD in psychology. Now a professor at Maynooth University, she directs the National Centre for Inclusive Higher Education and leads the award-winning STEM Passport for Inclusion, which has supported over 10,000 young people from underserved communities into higher education and high-status careers.

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