We're delighted to be hosting the launch for Kirsty Logan's fantastic new memoir, The Unfamiliar. In this work, Logan explores queer motherhood, challenging and disrupting assumptions about family, parenthood and gender roles with wit and wisdom. We were lucky enough to host the launch for Kirsty's novel, Now She is Witch, back in January so it's great to be able to welcome her back so soon! Kirsty will be in conversation with journalist and author Chitra Ramaswamy.

This event will take place in the bookshop with an in-person audience, as well as a livestream for attendees watching from home.

Livestream vouchers are valid until the day after the event and can be used on the website against the price of The Unfamiliar.

An unconventional, unexpectedly funny, brutally honest memoir about infertility, pregnancy and motherhood

'You and your partner want a baby. But your two bodies can't make a baby together.'

If you want a baby but your body says otherwise -
If you don't know the polite way to say thank you for the sperm -
If you're waiting for the sound of a brand-new heartbeat -
If you know it takes a village to raise a baby but have no idea who should be doing what -

If you're lurching between bliss and bewilderment -
If you don't fit the shape of what you've been told a mother should be -
Reach for The Unfamiliar and don't let go.

Moving and immersive, and written with wisdom, disarming humour and raw honesty, The Unfamiliar casts a fresh eye on motherhood and challenges our assumptions about pregnancy, gender roles, queer identity and what it means to be a parent.

Kirsty Logan - The Unfamiliar