An Evening with Lauren Bravo and Holly Gramazio
Join award-winning journalist Lauren Bravo and bestseller Holly Gramazio for a laugh-out-loud evening of conversation about writing and stories. With not just one, but TWO bestselling authors in conversation, this isn't an event to be missed.
Every ticket can be exchanged for a paperback copy of New York Times bestseller The Husbands or Lauren Bravo's hilarious new story Probably Nothing.
About Holly Gramazio's book: The Husbands
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
'The most fun I've had reading in the longest time' - MARIAN KEYES
You wait ages for The One . . . then 203 come along at once
One night Lauren finds a strange man in her flat who claims to be her husband. All the evidence – from photos to electricity bills – suggests he’s right. Lauren’s attic, she slowly realises, is creating an endless supply of husbands for her.
There’s the one who pretends to play music on her toes.
The one who’s too hot (there must be a catch).
The one who makes a great breakfast sandwich.
The one who turns everything into double entendres (‘I’ll weed your garden’).
And the one who can calm her unruly thoughts with a single touch.
But when you can change husbands as easily as changing a lightbulb, how do you know whether the one you have now is the good-enough one, or the wrong one, or the best one? And how long should you keep trying to find out?
'A wonderful, wonderful novel' - JENNIE GODFREY
About Lauren Bravo's book: Probably Nothing
'Gorgeous, generous, silly, tender, thoughtful, and just brutal enough to be genuinely laugh-out-loud funny, I truly loved this novel about guilt and grief and wanting what you haven’t got' - Ella Risbridger
Bryony doesn't actually mind being single. So she doesn't understand why she keeps seeing (ok, sleeping with) Ed, who is perfectly fine, but also only okay. After developing the ick on their fifth date, she resolves to end things – only to receive a call the next day telling her Ed has died.
Worse yet, he seems to have represented her to his family and friends as his great love. Obviously, it would be cruel to correct them. Then she's invited to the funeral. It would be equally rude to refuse . . . right?
Before she knows it, Bryony has been drawn in by the charisma and chaos of Ed's eccentric family and tangled in a web of her own lies. She's been guilted into signing up to his sister's pyramid scheme, she's in far too deep with several of his nearest and dearest – and to make matters worse she's experiencing a lot of physical symptoms that are becoming harder and harder to ignore . . .
Peppered with Lauren Bravo's irresistible wit, it explores the relatable modern cults of wellness and people-pleasing, and digs into the eternal dilemma: life is short – so should you settle for perfectly fine?
About Holly Gramazio
Holly Gramazio is a writer, game designer and curator from Adelaide, currently based in London. She founded the experimental games festival Now Play This, and wrote the script for the award-winning indie videogame Dicey Dungeons. She’s particularly interested in rules, play, cities, gardens, games that get people acting creatively and art that gets people interacting with their surroundings in new ways. The Husbands is her first novel.
About Lauren Bravo
Lauren Bravo is an author and freelance journalist who writes about fashion, popular culture, food, travel and feminism, for publications including Grazia, Stylist, Sunday Times Style, the Telegraph, the Independent and the Guardian.
She is the author of What Would the Spice Girls Do? (2018), How to Break Up with Fast Fashion (2020) and her debut novel Preloved, a bittersweet comedy tale of romance and redemption in a charity shop, named one of Red’s top 10 books of 2023.