Francesca May: This Vicious Hunger

Name: Francesca May: This Vicious Hunger
Start: 2025-11-13T18:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-13T19:00:00+00:00
Location: Waterstones Derby

Schedule

Thu Nov 13 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Waterstones Derby | Derby, EN

Francesca’s second fantasy novel has been described as ‘a queer fairy tale of toxic romance that echoes with longing', featuring intoxication, obsession and a desperate hunger for knowledge, whatever the cost.
Thora Grieve finds herself destitute and an outcast after the sudden death of her husband, but a glimmer of hope arrives when a family friend offers her the chance to study botany under a famed professor. Once at the university, Thora becomes entranced by a mysterious young woman, Olea, who emerges each night to tend to the plants in the private garden below her window.
Hungry for connection, Thora befriends Olea through the garden gate and their relationship quickly and intensely blossoms. Intoxicated, Thora throws herself into finding a cure for Olea's ailment and sinks deeper into a world of beauty, poison and obsession. She's finally found the freedom to pursue her darkest desires, but will it be worth the price?