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

Please note that the start time of this event has changed to 7pm.

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

7pm 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

Hanne Ørstavik is one of the most remarkable and admired authors in Norwegian contemporary literature. Her novel Love was voted one of Norway’s Top Ten books of the last twenty-five years. Her penultimate novel Ti Amo was published in English by And Other Stories in 2022. Stay with Me is her latest and sixteenth novel.