Story Café Special: Helen MacKinven

GWL’s Story Café provides a uniquely intimate way of hearing from some of the best Scottish women writers. Helen MacKinven will chat about her fierce and funny debut novel, Talk of the Toun. An uplifting black comedy of love, family life and friendship, it’s a bittersweet coming-of-age tale set in the summer of 1985, in working class, central belt Scotland.

Lifelong friends Angela and Lorraine are two very different girls, and a growing divide in their aspirations puts their friendship under increasing strain. Artistically gifted Angela has her sights set on art school, and although Lorraine’s ambitions are focused closer to home, Angela has plans for her too…

Effortlessly capturing the religious and social intricacies of 1980s Scotland, Talk of the Toun is the perfect mix of pathos and humour as the two girls wrestle with the complications of growing up and exploring who they really are.
Fresh, fierce and funny… a sharp and poignant study of growing up in 1980s Scotland.

‘You’ll laugh, you’ll cry…you’ll cringe’ – Karen Campbell

Thursdays from 4th February to 24th March and then from 14th April to 19th May at 12.30pm-2.30pm

We’ve read about barefoot, pioneering climbers in Snowdonia, globe-trotting, fearless matriarchs from India, and fabled heroines on dangerous quests in Afghanistan. Who knows where our Story Café and its wild and wonderful literary women will take us next?

Booking

These events are for women only and suitable for 16+. Each event costs £2.00 full price, you can pay on the day. We offer subsidised and/or free places for students, people on a low income, unemployed or those in receipt of benefit and Friends of GWL. Please click here or call us on 0141 550 2267 to register your interest and have your name added to the Story Café mailing list so we can keep you informed about the groups.