An Evening with Rose Cleary: How to Be a French Girl

Join us on Saturday, 4th November for an evening with Rose Cleary as she discusses her debut novel, How to Be a French Girl! This event will include a Q&A with Rose as well as a chance to get your book signed afterwards.

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There are a small amount of tickets available for those unable to afford them at the moment – please contact us directly at 07597365380 or email bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.com.

About the book

She’s from Southend. She wanted to be an artist and ended up at the best art school in the country. But that didn’t work out. Now she works as a receptionist in an IT firm, where her only creative outlet is arranging the sandwiches she’s ordered in for other people’s meetings. And she still lives in Southend. Outside work, soulless sex has become a symptom of her boredom. Then Gustav appears: older, perceptive, attentive. And French. He’s her way out, she thinks. But more than that, a chance to be creative again: to become someone new. How to be a French Girl is a fierce, disturbing and funny debut novel about desire, art and what we’ll risk to change ourselves.

About the author

Rose Cleary is a writer and author from Essex, UK. Her writing and analysis on arts and culture has been published by Hyperallergic, New Socialist and Harlow Arts Trust. Rose’s debut novel, How to be a French Girl, was published by Weatherglass Books in August 2023.