We are absolutely delighted to be welcoming Jennette McCurdy to Edinburgh on Wednesday 4th February, when she’ll join us at the Assembly Rooms on George Street for an evening of conversation about her debut novel, Half His Age.
Join us to celebrate the Scottish launch of the highly anticipated, funny, sad, thrilling novel about sex, class, desire, and power – and the (often misguided) lengths we’ll go to to get what we want, from Jennette McCurdy, the three-million copy, Sunday Times bestselling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died.
Doors due to open at 6.45pm.
Please note that Half His Age will be published on 20th January, therefore books for the Book & Ticket options will be posted out to you or made available to collect from the bookshop between then and the event on Wednesday 4th February. You can choose whether you would prefer collection or postage in the checkout options.
This event will take place at the Assembly Rooms on George Street.
About Half His Age:
Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Hurting. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all? Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher.
Mr Korgy, with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn’t know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films that she doesn’t? Or are they actually kindred spirits, sharing the same filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it’s just enough that he sees her when no one else does.
Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is an incisive study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles in her effort to be seen, to be desired and to be loved.
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