Everything is not perfect, you see; Ariane Beeston and Maxine Fawcet

Join us at Brighton Library to hear from two incredible authors, Ariane Beeston with "Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink" and Maxine Fawcett with "Everything is Perfect" - which it is evidently not. Although Ariane's book is a memoir and Maxine's book is a novel, both books tackle the topics of losing yourself and having to come back from the brink with wry humour and hope.

Joining Ariane and Maxine in conversation will be Katherine Collette, local Bayside polymath, who not only writes brilliant books, but also has an engineering background, coaches writers, draws cartoons and hosts a podcast. 

Ali Lowe, author of "The School Run", describes Maxine's book as "an honest and hilarious story of the changes that come with middle age...I laughed, cried and cringed with Cass. This is an absolutely cracking debut novel. I devoured it."

Anna Spargo-Ryan, author of "A Kind of Magic", says "Ariane Beeston's honesty, poetry and wisdom will save lives."