Karl Geary & Tom Newlands: Growing Up

  • Sat 10 Aug 19:15 - 20:15
  • EFI Venue NW
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Karl Geary & Tom Newlands: Growing Up

The awkwardness, angst, joy, and resilience of teenagers is captured in two heartbreaking coming-of-age novels. Karl Geary’s Juno Loves Legs follows two best friends who find safety in each other on a Dublin housing estate, while Tom Newlands’s debut novel, Only Here, Only Now, follows Cora as she tries to escape from her small-town life in Fife. In conversation with Catherine Wilson Garry.

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