Her-story: Hannah Lavery & Heather Parry
25 Apr 2025 - 15:45
Her-story: Hannah Lavery & Heather Parry
Returning to
Paisley with new books that reinforce their place at the forefront of
contemporary Scottish writing are two writers keen to shed light on hidden
women’s experiences and make their voices heard. Acclaimed poet and
playwright Hannah Lavery’s collection, Unwritten Woman, is a chilling
re-telling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr
Hyde that re-directs our focus onto the women in the story, who were
previously resigned to the shadows. Fiction and non-fiction writer Heather
Parry introduces Carrion Crow, a gothic Edwardian novel set in a London attic
that centres on a destructive mother-daughter relationship. Dealing with
themes of control, confinement, and otherness, this haunting narrative
questions what it means to be a ‘proper’ woman.
This event will be chaired by the award-winning broadcaster and author
Gemma Cairney, whose own project, The Immortal Sisterhood, tells the
forgotten stories of six remarkable women from history.
Book Tickets
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