An Evening with Olivie Blake at Waterstones Manchester Deansgate

Schedule

Sat Nov 15 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Waterstones | Manchester, EN

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Deansgate welcomes Olivie Blake to discuss her latest slice of dark academia: Girl Dinner.
About this Event

We are delighted to welcome Olivie Blake to Deansgate, celebrating her latest slice of dark academia: Girl Dinner.

A deliciously dark standalone novel from the bestselling author of The Atlas Six and Gifted & Talented, this new novel revolves around an exclusive campus sorority, arcane rituals and a sinister new wellness trend.

Olivie will be discussing her work and answering audience questions, followed by a signing.

Please note: Tiecket with book option includes a copy of Girl Dinner (RRP. £22) available for collection on the night.
About Girl Dinner

GOOD GIRLS DESERVE A TREAT.

Every member of The House, the most exclusive sorority on campus, and all its alumni, are beautiful, high-achieving and universally respected.After a freshman year she would rather forget, sophomore Nina Kaur knows being one of the chosen few accepted into The House is the first step in her path to the brightest possible future. Once she's taken into their fold, the House will surely ease her fears of failure and protect her from those who see a young woman on her own as prey.

Meanwhile, adjunct professor Dr. Sloane Hartley is struggling to return to work after accepting a demotion to support her partner's new position at the cutthroat University. After 18 months at home with her newborn daughter, Sloane's clothes don’t fit right, her girl-dad husband isn’t as present as he thinks he is and even the few hours a day she's apart from her child fill her psyche with paralyzing ennui. When invited to be The House’s academic liaison, Sloane enviously drinks in the way the alumnae seem to have it all, achieving a level of collective perfection that Sloane so desperately craves.

As Nina and Sloane each get drawn deeper into the arcane rituals of the sisterhood, they learn that living well comes with bloody costs. And when they are finally invited to the table, they will have to decide just how much they can stomach in the name of solidarity and power.

About the author

OLIVIE BLAKE is the internationally bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Alone with You in the Ether, One For My Enemy, Masters of Death, Januaries, Gifted & Talented, and Girl Dinner. As Alexene Farol Follmuth, she is also the author of the young adult rom-coms Twelfth Knight and My Mechanical Romance. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son.


Agenda

🕑: 06:00 PM
Doors
🕑: 06:30 PM
Talk + Audience Q&A
🕑: 07:30 PM
Signing
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Waterstones, 91 Deansgate, Manchester, United Kingdom

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