Ajay Close: What Doesn't Kill Us

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Join Ajay Close as she talks about her new book What Doesn't Kill Us

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We are looking forward to welcoming critically acclaimed author <a href="https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/search/author/Ajay%20Close" title="https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/search/author/Ajay%20Close" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ajay Close</a> along to the shop on Tuesday 6th February to celebrate the launch of her viscerally tense and blisteringly thrilling new book, <a href="https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/What-Doesnt-Kill-Us-by-Ajay-Close/9781913393960" title="https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/What-Doesnt-Kill-Us-by-Ajay-Close/9781913393960" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">What Doesn’t Kill Us</a>. Ajay’s emotional, action-packed and darkly funny, new book examines just how much the world has changed since the 1970s – and how much it hasn’t. A killer stalks the streets of Leeds. Every man is a suspect. Every woman is at risk. But in a house on Cleopatra Street, women are fighting back. It’s the eve of the 1980s. PC Liz Seeley joins the squad investigating the murders. With a violent boyfriend at home and male chauvinist pigs at work, she is drawn to a feminist collective led by the militant and uncompromising Rowena. There she meets Charmaine – young, Black, artistic, and fighting discrimination on two fronts. As the list of victims grows and police fail to catch the killer, women across the north are too terrified to go out after dark. To the feminists, the Butcher is a symptom of wider misogyny. Their anger finds an outlet in violence and Liz is torn between loyalty to them and her duty as a police officer. Which way will she jump? Ajay Close grew up in Yorkshire and, after her school years at a Sheffield comprehensive, studied at Cambridge. She worked at Granta before becoming a journalist and then a novelist. She is the author of six literary novels, of which her first, Official and Doubtful, was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Her novels are pacy, often political, page-turning, dealing with family and relationships under pressure, and can be read as thrillers. -Doors: 6.30pm, event starts: 7pm, please arrive early to secure a good seat.Tickets are free and there is a Ticket &amp; Book option which includes a signed copy of What Doesn't Kill Us by Ajay CloseThe bookshop has level access, events are seated and speakers use microphones. If you have any accessibility concerns, please do get in touch and we will do our best to accommodate your needs.For more information or if you would like a signed copy because you can't make it to the event, please contact the Blackwell's events team on 0131 622 8222 or matthew.land@blackwell.co.uk

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