Rebecca Watson: I Will Crash

£5.00£17.00

Wednesday 10th July 2024, 6:30pm, £5-£17

Storysmith, 236 North Street, Bristol, BS3 1JD

Rebecca Watson‘s debut novel little scratch made an absolutely indelible mark when we first read it back in 2021, and so we’re delighted that we’re able to bring the author to Bristol for the release of the follow-up, I Will Crash!

Insatiably inventive on the page and punishingly effective on the ol’ emotional devastation front, Watson’s writing is visually miraculous, spreading itself into meticulous yet ungovernable columns across the page to reflect fragmenting states of mind. We are so excited to poke into that process and learn more about this exceptional new novel.

Tickets include a glass of wine. Pre-order your copy of I Will Crash (rrp £14.99) for a special discounted price with your ticket, then collect on the night!

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About Rebecca Watson

Rebecca Watson is part-time Assistant Arts Editor at the Financial Times and one of the Observer’s ten best debut novelists of 2021 for her novel little scratch. She has been published in the TLS, Granta and the Guardian. In 2018, she was shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize, and in 2021, she was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize.
Photo credit: Alice Zoo

About I Will Crash

It was a peace offering, I knew that

you don’t appear on someone’s doorstep uninvited, saying Alright unless you want to make amends

It’s been six years since Rosa last saw her brother. Six years since they last spoke. Six years since they last fought.

Six years since she gave up on the idea of having a brother. She’s spent that time carefully not thinking about him. Not remembering their childhood.

Not mentioning those stories, even to the people she loves. Now the distance she had so carefully put between them has collapsed. Can she find a way to make peace – to forgive, to be forgiven – when the past she’s worked so hard to contain threatens to spill over into the present? From the acclaimed author of little scratch, this is a moving, powerfully honest novel about how we love, how we grieve and how we forgive.

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