Two of our most thrilling writers, award-winning author Kit de Waal (My Name Is Leon, Common People) and BAFTA & Emmy winning screenwriter Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady, Suffragette, The Hour), unveil their extraordinary new memoirs, in conversation with Damian Barr, at a very special Salon. 

Without Warning & Only Sometimes: Scenes from an Unpredictable Childhood is Kit de Waal’s funny, honest and compelling story of growing up in a household of opposites and extremes. Her haphazard mother was a devout Jehovah’s Witness who believed the world would end in 1975. Her father was the opposite. Kit was caught between three worlds: Irish, Caribbean and British in 1960s Birmingham. 

Abi Morgan’s This Is Not A Pity Memoir is intimate, poignant, heartbreaking and ultimately a love story about her husband Jacob and the day their lives would change forever: ‘This is the man I love, the man I have known for nearly twenty years. The man who have fought with and laughed with and loved with. The man who is never going to be the same again.’

In partnership with Damian Barr’s Literary Salon

Early bird tickets are £15, standard tickets £25.

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N.B. This event will take place in-person at The London Library in alignment with up-to-date government COVID recommendations. Please see our Event Access and COVID Guidelines before you arrive. Doors (and the bar) open at 6.30pm, the talk is from 7.30pm to 9pm. 

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