93. Reeta Chakrabarti & Oyinkan Braithwaite: Family Curses
Reeta Chakrabarti and Oyinkan Braithwaite join us to discuss their new novels in which family curses of one kind or another have catastrophic effects on successive generations. Journalist and broadcaster Reeta Chakrabarti’s first novel, Finding Belle, is a powerful story of betrayal, madness and a daughter who must forge her own identity. In Nigerian-British writer Oyinkan Braithwaite’s latest book, Cursed Daughters, calm, rational Eniiyi must confront some strange insistent familial beliefs. Her debut novel My Sister, The Serial Killer was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and longlisted for the Booker.
Yvette is a freelance journalist specialising in the arts contributing to a wide range of national and regional publications writing extensively on film, theatre, literature and visual art. She is arts correspondent for the Yorkshire Post, chairs events and debates for a number of literature and arts festivals around the North, is a regular contributor to BBC Radio Leeds and has been a guest critic on BBC Radio 4 arts programme Front Row.
Event Details
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- Date: Sunday 18th October
- Time: 2:45 pm
- Price£12/9 concessions
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