InThe Year of the Cat, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett explores the enduring relationship between women writers, artists and their cats as winter turns to spring over the course of a locked-down year. Navigating trauma and mental illness, what it means to care and artistic freedom, this tender memoir charts the way a kitten called Mackerel walked into Rhiannon's home and heart and taught her to face down her fears and appreciate quite how much love she had to offer.
Why Women Grow is a much-needed exploration of why women turn to the earth, as gardeners, growers and custodians. Alice Vincent fosters connections with gardeners that unfurl into a tender exploration of women’s lives, their gardens and what the ground has offered them, with conversations spanning creation and loss, celebration and grief, power, protest, identity and renaissance.
Join Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett and Alice Vincent for a fascinating discussion about their brilliant books, gardens, motherhood, art, creativity and cats!
Speaker Bios
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett writes columns and reviews fiction for the Guardian, and has also written for the Observer Magazine, I Paper, Vogue, Stylist, Elle, and many more. Her first novel, The Tyranny of Lost Things, was published in 2018. She also co-wrote The Vagenda (based on the successful feminist satire website) with Holly Baxter. Born and raised in Wales, she now lives in north London with her husband and cat.
Alice Vincent is a journalist and the author of three books, including Rootbound: Rewilding a Life, which was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize and named as one of the books of 2020 by the Financial Times and the Independent. A self-taught gardener, Alice is a columnist for Gardens Illustrated and writes for titles including Vogue and the New Statesman. She has been documenting her gardening online since 2015 and has since launched a newsletter and podcast. She lives in South London.
