BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:10607@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20250513T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20250513T180000 DTSTAMP:20250503T145416Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/online-the-best-of-everything-ki t-de-waal/ SUMMARY:: Online: The Best of Everything: Kit de Waal DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nNot only is Kit de Waal an incredibly talented writer a nd storyteller\, she is also a champion for elevating the voices and oppor tunities for diverse\, working class writers\, putting her money where her mouth is by creating the Kit de Waal Creative Writing Scholarship to he lp improve working-class representation in the arts. It’s a pleasure t o welcome her back to WoWFEST for this online event discussing her latest novel\, The Best of Everything\, described by Booker Prize winner Bernar dine Evaristo as ‘A profoundly compassionate novel of devastating power ’. The Best of Everything follows Paulette’s planning for her future perfect wedding\, honeymoon\, perfect life. But life has other plans for her. Denton disappears without a goodbye\, his friend Garfield steps in— and soon\, there’s a baby\, and Paulette finds purpose raising her son. But it isn’t enough\, and Paulette finds can’t she stop thinking about Nellie\, a little boy growing up nearby with no mother in sight? A moving tale of unexpected love and the ties that pull us in\, no matter our plan s. Pull up a chair and get your hankies ready.\n\n \;\n\nBritish/Irish writer Kit de Waal is the author of multiple novels. My Name Is Leon wa s shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award\, won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and was adapted for BBC2\; The Trick to Time was longlis ted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction\; her acclaimed biography Without Warning and Only Sometimes was Radio 4 Book of the Week\, and shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. She has written extens ively about the need for the publishing industry to be more inclusive\, wa s editor of Common People: An Anthology of Working-Class Writers. and pres ented the BBC Radio 4 programme Where Are All the Working Class Writers?\n \n\n\n\n\nBOOKING &\; INFO\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2025/05/WOWFEST-25-WebHead.jpeg CATEGORIES:Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR