Join Booker-longlisted British author Yvvette Edwards as she presents Good Good Loving, her first novel in a decade—a warm, funny, and vibrant story of a multi-generational British-Caribbean family across five decades that is as devastating as it is joyous.
Ellen's beloved, beautiful, complicated family are gathered around her hospital bed as she prepares to slip away, and boy, is she ready. You'd think she could finally get some peace and quiet, but instead her children have chosen now of all times to have a never-ending discussion about her failings. Every single tiny thing they think she's done wrong over the years—and the one big thing too. After all the sacrifices Ellen has made for every last ungrateful one of them, they still take their father's side. If only they knew the whole story.
Full of big personalities, big mistakes, burning love and quiet heartbreak, Good Good Loving moves backwards in time through some of the most dramatic turning points in the life of Ellen and her family. Their story is as devastating as it is joyous.
In conversation with award winning Nigerian British author Irenosen Okojie, the two will explore displacement and leaving family and land behind, the British-Caribbean experience since Windrush, how pain and internalized misogyny cut across generations, and what happens when a narrative twists backwards through time like a corkscrew to reveal the whole story—the one the children never knew.
"Massively entertaining, scorching, brilliant, witty, shocking, spirited and psychologically penetrating." Bernardine Evaristo

The ‘stream and book’ package includes a unique ticket for the stream, and a copy of Good Good Loving (RRP £18.99) deliverable to any UK address.
The event will initially be broadcast on 14 April 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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