Join The Beaumont for a complimentary digital evening with award-winning writer Georgia Pritchett. Celebrating the best of British writing, The Beaumont has launched a hybrid digital and in-person version of its literary series, bringing together the world’s best and brightest non-fiction writers to read from their latest work.

As part of the series, we will showcase young writers alongside established literary names, putting a spotlight on intelligent and intriguing non-fiction stories with our overall aim being to curate a series of stimulating and engaging events.

The series continues on with a reading of My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety (Faber) and a live Q&A with the book’s best-selling author Georgia Pritchett.

"Georgia Pritchett is a singularly hilarious person. Her book is a delightful and perfect reflection of her. It's tenderness sneaks up on you and really packs a punch. What a magnificent read!" - Julia Louis Dreyfus

TIMINGS

19.15 (GMT): Reading and In-Conversation with Georgia Pritchett, followed by a Q&A

ABOUT THE BOOK

Multi-award-winning television writer and producer Georgia Pritchett knows a thing or two about anxiety. This memoir, told in gloriously comic vignettes, is an utterly joyful reflection on living – and sometimes thriving sometimes not – with anxiety.

From worrying about the monsters under her bed as a child (Were they comfy enough?) to embracing womanhood (One way of knowing you have crossed from girlhood to womanhood is that men stop furtively masturbating at you from bushes and start shouting things at you from cars) to becoming a mother (Birth is a beautiful thing, if your idea of beauty is a tractor pulling a combine harvester out of your vagina), Georgia Pritchett’s memoir takes us through a life lived anxiously. Filled with warmth and humour, insight and honesty, it is a brilliant meditation on how to live with worry.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Georgia Pritchett is a multi-award-winning comedy and drama writer, including five Emmys, five Writers Guild awards, a Golden Globe, a BAFTA and a Producer’s Guild award. She is currently a writer and co-executive producer on HBO's critically acclaimed show, Succession, now in its third season and is show-running The Shrink Next Door for Apple TV. Georgia was the co-executive producer and writer on the HBO multi-Emmy winning show Veep, which recently completed its seventh series.

THE BEAUMONT'S LITERARY SERIES

The Beaumont Hotel launched its literary series in 2018, bringing together the world's best and brightest non-fiction writers to read from their latest works. As part of the series, we showcase young writers alongside established literary names, putting a spotlight on intelligent and intriguing non-fiction stories with our overall aim being to put together a series of stimulating and engaging events. To date, we have hosted Annabel Rivkin & Emilie McMeekan, Sir Nicholas Coleridge, Marcus Berkmann, Sir Simon Jenkins, Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott and Bettany Hughes OBE.

With every hotel bedroom brimming with hard-bound books and a private dining room named after The Lotos Club in New York - one of the oldest literary clubs in the United States - The Beaumont is a fitting host for this celebration of authors and writing.