An Evening with Madeline Cash at Waterstones Manchester, Deansgate

We are delighted to welcome debut author Madeline Cash to Deansgate, celebrating the release of Lost Lambs.

Bringing head and heart together with its own crazy glue, Lost Lambs turns family dysfunction into an artform, following the spectacular falling apart – and eventual coming together – of the Flynn family.

Madeline is joined in conversation by author Lara Williams (Supper Club, The Odyssey.) The pair will discuss this propulsive novel and answer audience questions, followed by a signing. Doors at 6pm.
About Lost Lambs

"Lost Lambs goes off like a firework. Intrigue and mystery burst outward while the family at the centre of the story implodes. As sincere as it is funny (and it’s very funny)." —RAMONA AUSUBEL, author of The Last Animal

It’s been disastrous since Bud and Catherine opened up their marriage, and none of the Flynns can remember the last time a meal was cooked, a load of laundry done, or a social code abided by. Their daughters spiral in their own chaotic orbits: Abigail, the eldest, is dating a man in his twenties nicknamed War Crime Wes; Louise, the middle child, maintains a secret correspondence with an online terrorist; the brilliant youngest, Harper, is being sent to wilderness reform camp due to her insistence that someone – or something – is monitoring the town’s citizens.

Casting a shadow across their lives, and their small coastal town, is Paul Alabaster, a nefarious local billionaire. Rumours of corruption circulate, but no one dares dig too deep. No one except Harper, whose obsession with Alabaster’s machinations sends the family hurtling into a criminal conspiracy – one that may just, finally, bring them closer together.
This is an original, funny and compassionate portrait of the perverse pleasures and perils of our most intimate reality: our family.
About the author

MADELINE CASH is the founding editor of Forever magazine. Her fans include Sam Lipsyte, Tao Lin, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the PenCraft Fiction Award, and more. The foreign language rights have sold widely – from Hungarian to Catalan.

LARA WILLIAMS is the author of Treats, Supper Club and The Odyssey. Her fiction has won the Guardian 'Not the Booker' Prize and been nominated for the BBC National Short Story Award, the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Edinburgh First Book Award, the Saboteur Awards and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Lara Williams lives in Manchester and is a contributor to the Guardian, Independent, Times Literary Supplement, Vice, Dazed and others.

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