Join us for a brilliant evening with bestselling author, Olivie Blake, discussing her upcoming novel Girl Dinner. A powerful and darkly fun novel about ambition, lust and eating your fill – as wealthy moms and sonority girls practice a sinister new wellness trend… cannibalism.About the BookThe House is the most exclusive sorority on campus; its members and alumni are universally beautiful, high-achieving and respected.Sophomore Nine Kaur knows being one of the chosen few accepted in The House is the first step in her path to the brightest possible future. The House will surely ease her fears of failure and protect her from those who see a young woman on her own as prey.Meanwhile, adjunct professor Dr Sloane Hartley is struggling to return to work after accepting a demotion to support her partner’s new position at the cutthroat University. After eighteen months as home with her newborn daughter, Sloane’s clothes don’t fit right; her girl-dad husband isn’t as present as he thinks he is; and even the few hours a day she’s apart from her child fill her psyche with paralyzing ennui. When invited to be The House’s academic liaison, Sloane enviously drinks in the way the alumnae seem to have it all, achieving a level of collective perfection that Sloane desperately craves.As Nina and Sloane each get drawn deeper into the arcane rituals of the sisterhood, they learn that living well comes with bloody costs. And when they are finally invited to the table, they will have to decide just how much they can stomach in the name of solidarity and power.About the AuthorOlivie Blake is the internationally bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Alone With You in the Ether, One For My Enemy, Masters of Death, Januaries, Gifted & Talented, and Girl Dinner. As Alexene Farol Follmuth, she is also the author of the young adult rom-coms Twelfth Knight and My Mechanical Romance. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and son.Reviews“Truly brilliant… wickedly fun and deeply satisfying.” - Ling Ling Huang, author of Natural Beauty“An exploration of the many hungers of the female heart.” - Deliah S. Dawson“Girl Dinner is cunning, charged and – just as you’re comfortable – a profound shock.” - Chloe Gong, bestselling author of Immortal Longings
