Join award-winning poet and campaigner Karen McCarthy Woolf to celebrate the publication of her hilarious, lyrical and totally original debut novel Top Doll.

When reclusive billionaire Huguette Clark dies age 104, she leaves behind a suite of New York apartments, a meticulously upkept California mansion, at least one Monet and her vast collection of antique dolls. Having barely been outside for 50 years, the elusive Clark spoke to few - in this highly unreliable, semi-fictional miniature epic, the dolls tell all.

Karen’s novel is a joyfully irreverent story of love, betrayal, Barbies and ultimately, what it means to be human. This virtual event promises to be a unique celebration of witty, innovative, and profound storytelling.

“Top Doll could be a poetry collection, a play, a piece of fiction and a historical drama in a blender. An immersive, playful, multi-voices time-travelling story. Woolf has written a book that is truly worthy of the term “novel”.” Raymond Antrobus