Book talk: This is Also a Love Story

Hayden's first book, 'My Fourth Time, We Drowned', documented crimes against humanity on Europe's borders, including the ways in which European policy led to the torture and indefinite detention of some of the world's most vulnerable people. It won the Orwell Prize, Michel Deon Prize, Il Premio Terzani, and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, among others.

Her second book reexamines crises through love stories she has come across in nine countries across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. But it is also a book about the limitations and failures of journalism; the dangers of dehumanisation; and a detachment crisis that sees people in privileged and wealthy countries disconnect from what is taking place elsewhere.

Hayden has lived in Lebanon since 2024, and the book is also grounded in the ongoing war there.

She will be interviewed by Leila Molana-Allen, who has also reported extensively in Lebanon and elsewhere. Hayden is also happy to answer any questions about the process of turning journalism into a book.

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