I’m thrilled to share the news that I’ll be appearing alongside the Guardian’s TV critic and all-round womanly wit Lucy Mangan at Stratford Literary Festival on Friday 12^th November, where we’ll be talking motherhood, midlife and all its multi-tasking with the wonderful Jane Garvey.

Lucy’s first novel Are We Having Fun Yet? is a riot of family chaos featuring a heroine reluctantly approaching forty (I’m reading it and can vouch for its belly laugh brilliance). Meanwhile, I’ll be waving the banner for the fifty-something female renaissance in Woman of a Certain Rage, written as Georgie Hall.

The event is taking place at the Bear Pit Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, 4pm-5pm

Tickets priced £14 are available from this LINK

Or call the box office on 0333 666 3366

And do check out the festival’s many other superb Winter Weekend events. I’d love to see you there!