Emma Barnett Instagram – An invitation for you… on International Women’s Day no less. Would you like to join me and the one and only Kirsty Young at the Southbank Centre next month for a Saturday evening I promise you won’t forget? There will be laughter – much of it wry I imagine. And more. Much more.
Tickets have just gone on sale and I would love to share this conversation with you. Plus as an interviewer, I am flipping thrilled that Kirsty has agreed to interview me. About the wilderness; the love jungle that is maternity leave and would be much better framed at maternity service – something we shall unpack.
I wrote my new book, coming out on March 13, live, during my latest tour of duty on my Maternity Service. I wanted to capture how I felt and the things I thought while living in this parallel universe – before I forgot them once more and rewrote the reality – smoothing out the edges – for good or bad. I wanted to be a faithful correspondent of a time we are programmed not to remember accurately.
On the conversational menu:
Existential crisis
Slipped discs
Social desperation
Explosive love
Explosive nappies
Deadening boredom
Litter picking fantasies
Black polo necks
Not necessarily in that order.
Just search ‘maternity service’ @southbankcentre and it should come up. And will share link in bio and stories.
Hope to see you there 💪 and perhaps bring a woman or man who got you through your maternity leave.
(And more non London events coming…I promise).
https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/emma-barnett-maternity-service/
#maternityservice #internationalwomensday #maternityleave #babies #motherhood #matrescence
@penguinfigtree @penguinukbooks | Posted on 05/Feb/2025 02:44:59
