Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Libraries are delighted to present the fourth in this series of talks with Kate Macdonald, historian and director of Handheld Press.
Kate will be talking to bioethicist Tom Shakespeare about disability in fiction, and novels in which disability is just another aspect of the characters’ lives. This will include The Exile Waiting by the late Vonda N McIntyre, a masterclass on writing a society in which everyone is living with impairment, but some impairments are deadly and some have wings; and So Lucky by Nicola Griffith, in which Mara loses, in one week, her wife, her job, and control of her body when she gets a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis.
There are so many other stories to talk about in which disability is central: bring your own suggestions for what we could all be reading.