Writing & Perseverance

Anna Jefferson and Sam Johnson

Panel discussion about keeping going, with Lisa Allen-Agostini, Mira Shah and Philippa East. Brought to you by Writing Around the Kids.

Lisa Allen-Agostini is a writer, editor and stand-up comedian from Trinidad and Tobago. Her books includes The Bread the Devil Knead (Myriad Editions UK) which was shortlisted for women’s prize 2022, Home Home (Delacorte Press), Swallowing the Sky (Cane Arrow Press) and Trinidad Noir (Akashic Books). She is the mother of two daughters and two dogs. She lives in Trinidad and Tobago. Mira V Shah is a #1 bestselling author and legal writer who lives in North London with her husband, three good dogs and a mediocre cat. She studied History at the University of Warwick before practising as a City lawyer. During the pandemic, Mira wrote her first ever novel, HER, a psychological drama, which explores themes of flawed perception, trauma, race and class.HER is a #1 ebook bestseller and was published by Hodder &amp; Stoughton in March 2023, with the paperback to follow on 23 November. Her second novel, THE HOUSESITTER will be published in 2024. Philippa East grew up in Scotland and originally studied Psychology and Philosophy at the University of Oxford. After graduating, she moved to London to train as a Clinical Psychologist and worked in NHS mental health services for over ten years. Philippa now lives in the Lincolnshire countryside with her spouse and cat, and alongside her writing she continues to work as a psychologist and therapist. Her debut novel Little White Lies was longlisted for the Guardian's "Not-The-Booker" prize and shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger. She has since published two further psychological suspense novels, Safe and Sound and I'll Never Tell, and is currently working on her fourth.

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