Join us for an evening with Sophie Ward, acclaimed stage and screen actress and writer, as she discusses her powerful third novel Our Better Natures.
Amid the chaos of 1970s America, three very different women must decide whether to accept the world as it is, or act to change it.
Phyllis Patterson is a housewife in Illinois whose world is upended when her son returns from Vietnam with a Korean wife and two children. Andrea Dworkin is an activist who, having fled an abusive marriage, encounters Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault, a meeting that will spark her revolutionary path. Muriel Rukeyser is a poet in New York who uses her words as weapons, campaigning against injustice and pushing her body to its limits.
A single postcard from an imprisoned writer thousands of miles away will unite these women in the fight for a world they believe in. Our Better Natures is a powerful novel about language, connection, and the courage of women who change the world.
Sophie Ward’s debut novel, Love and Other Thought Experiments, was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2020. Her second novel, The Schoolhouse, was shortlisted for the Polari Prize. She has had a long and distinguished acting career since co-starring in ‘Young Sherlock Holmes’ in 1985.
Books will be available to purchase after the audience Q&A.