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Ajay Close Creative Conversations

Monday 26 February, 2024 – 1 p.m. – 2 p.m.

University Chapel, Glasgow University Memorial Chapel University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ

Ajay Close is a Scottish-based dramatist and writer of literary fiction. Her novels explore the emotional flashpoints of place, politics and family. Her latest, What Doesn’t Kill Us, combines the tension of a police procedural with the power and passion of the Women’s Lib movement. By turns emotional, action-packed, and darkly funny, What Doesn’t Kill Us reveals just how much the world has changed since the 1970s—and how much it hasn’t. What We Did in the Dark, was inspired by the 20th century Scottish writer Catherine Carswell and her disastrous first marriage to a man who tried to strangle her. (‘Profound and moving… I couldn’t stop reading it,’ James Robertson.)

A Petrol Scented Spring, a riveting novel of repression, jealousy and love, and the struggle for women’s emancipation, was long-listed for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. (‘A fascinating insight into one of the most compelling stories in the history of the women’s suffrage movement,’ The Times.)

The Daughter of Lady Macbeth (‘sensual, wise and raw,’ Rosemary Goring), explores love, family, and the kernel of mystery in the people we think we know inside out.

Trust is a story of women, men, love and money over three decades (‘a serious book for grown-ups who want the world taken not with a pinch of salt but with something a little stronger.’ The Scotsman.)

Forspoken features the daughter of a notorious countercultural psychiatrist who comes to believe she has been cursed. (‘A rare gift of combining tartness and empathy, intellectual reach and an up-to-speed take on contemporary madness,’ Candia McWilliam.)

The psychological thriller Official and Doubtful, about a woman who kills her husband and goes on the run, was long-listed for the Orange Prize. (‘Brave, vulnerable, intensely observant and articulate, packed with life,’ John le Carré.)

Creative Conversations is supported by The Ferguson Bequest.

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