Join us for an evening with acclaimed critic and author Larissa Pham to discuss her electrifying debut novel, Discipline.

When two people fall apart, who gets to tell their story?

Christine is a young writer touring her debut novel—a thinly disguised tale of the affair she had with her professor ten years earlier. He was magnetic, domineering, both the sponsor of her early promise and its destroyer. But he surely forgot her long ago, and the temptation to exorcise her past was overwhelming.

Then, between hotel rooms and bookstores, formal dinners and road-trip hook-ups, she receives a series of sly, unsettling emails and finally an invitation to visit the professor's isolated house on an island off the coast of Maine. Against her better judgement, Christine is drawn back into his orbit, risking forever losing control of the narrative she's worked so hard to create.

Described by Publisher’s Weekly as a ‘dazzling story’ and ‘an astute’, ‘elegant’ debut by Kirkus Reviews, this taut and provocative novel walks the line between creativity and control, truth and memory, coercion and desire.

To celebrate the UK publication of Discipline, Larissa will be in conversation with writer Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou to discuss the intersection between art criticism and fiction, power and control in both the novel and the artistic process, and the place and meaning of art in her writing overall.