From June 13 Louisa will be leading a residential writing week at Arvon Lumb Bank in Yorkshire. Andrew Miller is co-tutor, and our special guest is Michel Faber https://www.arvon.org/writing-courses/courses-retreats/residential-writing-week-fiction-7/
On June 23 2022 Louisa will be in conversation with Susie Boyt, talking about her novel Loved and Missed, at West End Lane Books, London. www.welbooks.co.uk
Louisa will be doing an event at the Eastgate Bookshop on July 12 2022. Reading, talking, singing, drinking. All the good stuff! Details soon from the shop.
Louisa will be in conversation with Patrick Gale on July 9 2022 in Penzance, Cornwall, having a lovely chat about her ghosty romcom / poignant exploration of grief and survival (delete as you wish) Twelve Months And A Day. There may be singing. There may be tears. There will be reading, and there will be laughter. www.pzlitfest.co.uk
Louisa will be wearing her Agony Aunt hat on Friday July 8 at the Idler Festival, Fenton House, London. Bring your problems. She has wisdom for you. Limited number of time-slots so book in early www.idler.co.uk/idler-festival
Louisa’s new novel Twelve Months And A Day is out on June 9. You can pre-order now on your site of choice. I’m told that pre-ordering helps in the algorithms and can have an important effect on how a book does. Even if it gets to be a bestseller in ghost horror (it’s NOT a horror story) that gives it some magic flag which makes it more visible . . .
‘A beautiful book. Insanely romantic and utterly convincing’ Julie Myerson
‘A wonderful novel, charming and surprising, filled with loss and its triumphant opposites’ Susie Boyt
‘A wonderful and inventive novel, sorrowful and hopeful in equal measure. It was a true pleasure to read’ Miranda Cowley Heller
‘A skilfully calibrated love-after-death tale, it’s a four course feast of hearts broken, hearts mended, of songs, laughter, old regrets and fresh desire, that demands a major film deal’ Patrick Gale
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BIRDS of BRITAIN will be appearing at Celine’s at Gerry’s, 52 Dean Street, London W1 on December 12th — come down and Snooze those Election Blues with a lovely versatile cabaret salon mix — from 7.30pm; tickets on the door
Birds of Britain will be flying in to perform at Snowstation Vadsoe Festival, in Arctic Finnmark. There’ll be some low-level domestic appearances before then: details to come.
Do you worry your partner might be an alcoholic? Here’s a useful way of looking at it: it’s not what you drink, or how much; it’s why you drink, and what it does to you. What does it do to your partner? What does that do to you?
I knew mine was. We’d had a thing for each other since we were 17 and first met on the staircase of Oxford college where he had won a place from Wigan Grammar School to read music. A 25-year friendship-cum-romance ensued until we finally got together for good.
His drinking brought us together initially, by disinhibiting us, and also kept us apart. It was too much, it scared me. Yes Robert was charismatic, handsome, prodigiously talented, kind and witty, but he was also…
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/family/widows-tale-really-like-love-alcoholic/
Louisa’s debut album with Birds of Britain was released— just called ‘You Left Early’. It too deals first-hand with love and death; drink and grief. You can find it in all the old familiar places: listen to some tracks on Soundcloud, pre-order the whole thing on Amazon, iTunes or Spotify, or in your local record store. The music comes in three historical forms: on beautiful vinyl, uncool CD and today’s norm, the unromantic but convenient download.