Book Club Meets: Homelessness and addiction, with Lorna Tucker
Bare is the vital true story of Lorna Tucker’s fight to survive living on the streets of London. She had to lie, steal, strip, and just about everything in between to survive. This really important portrait of female homelessness was April’s Happy Place Book Club read.
In this chat with Fearne, aut…
Filmmaker Lorna Tucker - On Homelessness and Addiction
Today Lorna Tucker is a feted documentary maker whose subjects include Vivienne Westwood and Katherine Hepburn — a life she could not have imagined as a young woman who fled a troubled home to live on the streets. Once a thief, sex worker, and drug addict, estranged from her family and in trouble w…
Book Club Meets: Ambitious women and generational trauma, with Emily Henry
Two writers are competing for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a famous reclusive heiress. One of them is going to uncover the truth behind one of the most scandalous families of the 20th century. The thing is, heiress Margaret is giving each writer different tantalising little piec…
Book Club Meets: Sliding doors and the power of a name, with Florence Knapp
Has your name influenced who you’ve become? Would you have different characteristics, would people react differently to you, would your life have turned out differently, if you had a different name? These are the questions author Florence Knapp grapples with in her book The Names – our Happy Place …
Book Club Meets: I’m obsessed with romance scams! Gaslighting and misogyny, with Lisa Jewell
Do you love a true crime scam documentary? Our latest Happy Place Book Club read is for you! Iconic author Lisa Jewell has written Don’t Let Him In, a thriller about a perfect man... who’s a fraudulent liar.
In this chat with Fearne, live from The Happy Place Festival, Lisa explains how she got int…
Book Club Meets: Namaste Motherf*ckers! How to nail midlife, with Cally Beaton
Cally Beaton spent much of her career in male-dominated board rooms. She, in her own words, was a ‘boring businessperson’. Now? She’s a stand up comedian!
Namaste Motherfuckers was the Happy Place Book Club pick for August. It’s Cally’s manifesto for embracing the radical change that comes with mid…
Book Club Meets: Meeting their ex, jealousy, and heartbreak, with Aisha Muharrar
Loved Ones – the Happy Place Book Club pick for September – tells the story of Julia, whose first love Gabe dies aged 29, launching her into a world-wide quest to recover the possessions he left with friends and acquaintances across the world. It also brings her into contact with the last woman Gab…
Book Club Meets: “I’m a love and sex addict!” Elizabeth Gilbert copes with co-dependency and grief
You might know Elizabeth Gilbert as the author of Eat Pray Love; now, she’s written All The Way To The River, charting her electric, heart-breaking relationship with her partner Rayya, who died in 2018.
In this Book Club chat, Fearne explains that she chose this to be part of the Happy Place Book C…
Lights, Camera, Author - Lorna Tucker
My interview with Lorna Tucker, author of "Bare"
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