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Join us to hear Elizabeth Lovatt in conversation with Charlotte Mendelson. Tickets £5 including a glass of wine or soft drink.
Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line reimagines the women who both called and volunteered for the Lesbian Line in the 1990s, whilst also tracing the author’s 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. Elizabeth Lovatt has been published by Popshot Magazine, Spread the Word, 404 Ink and Cipher Press. Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line is her first book.
Elizabeth Lovatt will be speaking to Charlotte Mendelson, author of Wife. Her previous novel, The Exhibitionist, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and was The Times’ novel of the Year 2022. Her other novels include Almost English, which was longlisted for both the Man Booker and the Women’s Prize for Fiction; When We Were Bad, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction; and Daughters of Jerusalem, which won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.