What happens to a love story that has nowhere to go, and who has the right to tell it?
Join award-winning novelist Sarvat Hasin as she presents Strange Girls, a stunning exploration of creativity, longing, and all the words left unsaid.
A decade has passed since Ava spoke to Aliya. Aliya has everything Ava wants—a room of her own and a publishing deal—and, worse, the thing Ava was certain neither of them had ever wanted: a sensible doctor husband. Arriving back in London for a mutual friend's hen party, Ava is desperate to unpack the truth of their shared history and what they meant to each other.
Aliya and Ava first met in the halls of their historic campus with dreams built upon Emily Brontë, Brideshead Revisited, and Richard Curtis films. Their connection was electric. They created a world of their own through the stories they wrote, influencing and borrowing from each other's work. But when the end of university loomed, the real world began to pull them in opposite directions. Was their bond ever truly as strong as they thought? And what would become of the stories they told themselves about each other?
In conversation with author Alice Slater, join us for an evening exploring the feverish, feral first finding of all-encompassing friendship, the intimacy of closeted queer-coded relationships between young women, and the unbearable weight of unspoken feelings. An ingenious exploration of the ties forged in the intensity of youth, and the scars left when they break.
“Touching, infuriating and painfully true, Strange Girls is a superlative novel by one of our most perceptive writers. Sarvat Hasin is an artist whose work demands to be read.” Julia Armfield

The ‘stream and book’ package includes a unique ticket for the stream, and a copy of Strange Girls (RRP £20) deliverable to any UK address.
The event will initially be broadcast on 24 March at 6.30pm UK time. It will be available to view up to two weeks after the event has ended and can be accessed Worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not suit the initial broadcast time you can watch it at any point after the initial showing for two weeks.
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