Elizabeth Lovatt & Sarvat Hasin in conversation - Gower Street

Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line: A Hidden History of Queer Women

With warmth and humour, Elizabeth Lovatt reimagines the women who both called and volunteered for the Lesbian Line in the 1990s, whilst also tracing her own journey from accidentally coming out to disastrous dates to finding her chosen family.
With callers and agents alike dealing with first crushes and break-ups, sex and marriage, loneliness and illness (or simply the need to know the name of a gay bar on a night out), this is a celebration of the ordinary lives of queer women.
Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line is timely and vital exploration of how lesbian identity continues to remake and redefine itself in the 21st century, and where it might lead us in the future.

Strange Girls

From award-winning author Sarvat Hasin comes a stunning novel about creativity, longing and all the words left unsaid. What happens to a love story that has nowhere to go, and who has the right to tell it?

Weaving together their past and present, Strange Girls is an ingenious exploration of the ties forged in the intensity of youth, and the scars left when they break.

Elizabeth Lovatt is a writer of fiction and creative non-fiction currently living in London. Her first book was published by Dialogue Books in 2025 and was shortlisted for The Gordon Burn Prize 2026.

Sarvat Hasin (born 1991) is a British-Pakistani writer. She began her career with the novels This Wide Night (2016) and You Can't Go Home Again (2018), published in India. Her third novel The Giant Dark (2021) won the inaugural Mo Siewcharran Prize and was shortlisted for the Encore Award.
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