Stay With Me Event with Hanne Ørstavik - Tuesday 29th October 2024

Join us in the bookshop, to hear Hanne Ørstavik in conversation about her new novel, Stay with Me. 

6.30pm on Tuesday 29th October.

Order your copy of Stay with Me and receive a free ticket to our event. Alternatively, our ticket-only option is available for £5 (which can be used towards a purchase of the book at the event).

We will follow up on your booking with a confirmation email - please be sure to check your junk folder!

About Stay with Me

The narrator of this novel is a Norwegian writer living in Milan. A year has passed since the premature death of her Italian husband. She falls in love.

M is seventeen years younger than her, but the connection between them is intense and of a kind she has never felt before. Then, as his vulnerability starts showing, so does his troubling rage. She knows this rage.

It was always present in her childhood, and it created an all-encompassing fear in her. In Stay with Me, Hanne Ørstavik returns to her theme of love, this time exploring how it can be intertwined with insecurity, fear and violence. How do you recognise love, if fear is the feeling you know?

About Hanne Ørstavik

With the publication of the novel Hakk (Cut) in 1994, Hanne Ørstavik (b. 1969) embarked on a career that would make her one of the most remarkable and admired authors in Norwegian contemporary literature. Her literary breakthrough came three years later with the publication of Love, which in 2006 was voted one of Norway’s Top Ten book of the last twenty-five years. Love was published to acclaim by And Other Stories in 2019. Upon the novel’s US publication, it won the PEN Translation Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Ørstavik has also won a number of prizes in Norway, including the prestigious Brage Prize. Ti Amo is her fifteenth novel.