If you have any concerns about accessibility, please do get in touch and we will do our best to accommodate your needs.Ĭovid 19 Precautions will be adhered to in order to ensure the safety of our attendees, authors and booksellers. The bookshop has level access, events are seated and speakers use microphones. There is also is a Ticket & Book option which includes a copy of Ginger and Me, which Elissa will be happy to sign for you on the night of the event.
All donations help us to continue bringing you the very best events the literary community has to offer. This is a FREE event, with the option to support our bookshop by paying what you can. Her characters tend to be alienated, damaged, and often angry, but their perspective on the world and the way in which they deal with their problems will reassure readers of the resilience of the human spirit. She won the Primadonna Prize 2019 and her debut novel, Ginger and Me, will be published by HarperCollins on 21 July 2022.Įlissa's fiction is set in the domestic but often dangerous world of ordinary people. And that's before she realizes just how much trouble Ginger is about to get them in…Īn unforgettable debut novel which will stay with you long after the last page.Įlissa Soave is a Scottish writer. But as they begin the summer of their lives, Wendy wonders if things were simpler before. For the first time, Wendy has a real best friend. A teenager with flaming orange hair, Ginger's so brave she's wearing a coat that isn't even waterproof. And she even joins a writers' group to share the stories she writes, like the one about a bullied boy who goes to Mars.īut everything changes when Wendy meets Ginger. Each week she shows her social worker the progress she's made, like the coasters she bought to spruce up the place, even if she forgets to make tea. After her mum died, there's nobody to remind her to eat and what to do each day.Īnd Wendy is ready to step out of her comfort zone. All nineteen-year-old Wendy wants is to drive the 255 bus around Uddingston with her regulars on board, remember to buy milk when it runs out and just to be okay. We are delighted to be welcoming Scottish winner of the Primadonna Prize 2019, Elissa Soave to the shop on the evening of Wednesday 27th July to discuss her thoroughly vivid, startlingly sly and warmingly witty debut novel Ginger and Me.Įlissa will be in conversation with Lucy Ribchester.
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