Join us in welcoming Hannah Patterson to discuss her fiction debut Ungone, a whip-smart examinination of the complexities of end-of-life care and our sense of duty to the ones we love.Eve is attempting to come to terms with her ageing mother, who has dementia and lives in a care home, and employs Erin, a total stranger, to visit the home and pretend to be her. The act has profound consequences, as all three women begin a process of doing, undoing and redoing, with complicated and ultimately necessary truths revealed about each of their lives. UNGONE tells the story of a single decision – a deceptively simple thing – through which the fractured, multi-layered nature of identity and the self is both revealed and interrogated.Hannah Patterson has written for stage and screen, with recent plays including Giving, Platinum and Eden (all at Hampstead Theatre) and Playing With Grown Ups (Theatre 503 & New York's 59E59), which was nominated for a West End Award for Best New Play. She is the recipient of a Peggy Ramsay Foundation playwriting grant.She is producer of the award-winning Channel 4 BRITDOC Foundation documentary Shelter in Place and upcoming feature doc The Return, and has written extensively about cinema and culture for books and publications including The Guardian, Time Out and Sight & Sound. Ungone is her first novel.
