In conversation with Louisa Reid

Join Louisa Reid in the library as she talks about her career so far and discusses her debut adult novel, written in verse - The Poet

This event will also feature a Q+A from the audience.

The event will also include refreshments and bookselling from The Bookstop - St Helens very own independant bookshop.

Ticket prices: £7.10, £6.15 (St Helens Library card holder) , £4.10 (Concessions)

Buy online via Eventbrite or direct Chester Lane Library.

Bright, promising Emma is entangled in a toxic romance with her old professor - and she's losing control.

Cruel, charming Tom is idolized by his students and peers - confident he holds all the cards.

In their small Oxford home, he manipulates and undermines her every thought and act. Soon, he will push her to the limit and she must decide: to remain quiet and submit, or to take her revenge.

Written in verse and charged with passion and anger, The Poet is a portrait of a deeply dysfunctional relationship, exploring coercive control, class and privilege. It is also a page-turning tale of female solidarity and survival.

Author Julie Cohen says - A novel in verse about poetry, female desire and achievement, gender politics and revenge, it weeps, rages and triumphs in words as exquisite as emotion. Loved it.

Irish Times - A beautiful, biting page-turner... is it any different for young women, these days? Reid's novel provides -- as the best fiction does -- a nuanced, thought provoking answer to this question.

Louisa has lived in Cambridge, London and Zurich and now lives near Manchester. She graduated with a degree in English from Oxford before training as an English teacher at Cambridge University and she continues to work as a teacher. Louise is the author of four novels for young adults: Black Heart Blue and Gloves Off were both nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal.

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