When I heard that The Missing One had been picked to launch the Psychologies magazine Book Club, I really was delighted. I’ve often read Psychologies, and have written for the magazine too over the years, so having Psychologies readers engage with my book is going to be amazing.
I’ve created a Book Club video here,https://lifelabs.psychologies.co.uk/
In it, I raise some issues and questions and themes that will get a Book Club discussion going. I talk about good and bad mothers, about gut instinct, and flawed characters. I also, perhaps unwisely, confess how many hours I’ve wasted looking at grainy underwater images on an ‘Orca Cam’, and I manage to look significantly scruffier than I do in this clever publicity pic.
I’ll be talking about all this – loss, creativity and self-expression – at the book club launch next week, at the brilliant Where The Light Gets In Philosopy Festival at Hay-on-Wye (Wednesday 28th May), along with Psychologies editor Suzy Greaves and creativity coach Orlando Murrin. You can buy a ticket here: http://howthelightgetsin.iai.tv/2014-programme/event-tickets/all-sessions/#date-block-140528
I’m really looking forward to meeting Suzy and Orlando – and of course all the smart, curious (in a good way) Psychologies readers who are brave enough to show up.
To find out more about the fantastic new Psychologies Book Club, visit: psychologies.co.uk/were-launching-psychologies-book-club
Lucy atkins 
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