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Author Event
26 Jun
18:30
Until
26 Jun, 19:30
1h
Laura Blake - Go Home Birdie Brown
The Heath Bookshop
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The Heath Bookshop
We are so happy to announce that Laura Blake will be joining us at The Heath Bookshop to talk about her new book, ‘Go Home Birdie Brown ‘. Laura will be in conversation with Lyza Blacklore.
Laura Blake is a Birmingham-based writer of English and Jamaican descent. She has a master’s degree in Literary Studies from Aberystwyth University.
Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the Floella Benjamin Writing Prize, the Leicester Writes Short Story Competition, the London Independent Story Prize, the George Floyd Short Story Competition and the 4th Estate and Guardian 4thWrite Prize. Go Home Birdie Brown is her debut novel.
Go Home Birdie Brown:
Birdie has come too far to go quietly…
A powerful and emotional novel inspired by the Windrush Scandal, for fans of All My Mothers by Joanna Glen and Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
This is a story about being told you don’t belong. This is a story about knowing you do.
This is a story about Birdie.
Birdie Brown’s life is held together by family — her sharp-witted daughter Carmen, her son Scott who no one mentions, and five grandkids who keep her on her toes. Retirement is bingo nights, babysitting, and TV with her granddaughter Saffie — until a letter from the Home Office arrives.
It says she’s here illegally. That she must return to Jamaica — a country she hasn’t seen since childhood.
As the system threatens to erase her, Birdie must confront buried truths and fractured ties. Can she hold on to the life she built — and the family that built her?
Lyza Lawal is a writer and book blogger based in Birmingham. She grew up in London and was schooled in Nigeria. A lover of African classical literature and magical realism, she explores books through a cultural lens. Hosting bookclubs for community spaces like Space For Girls and University of Birmingham Exchange Booktober Lyza has facilitated a safe space to learn exlpore and discuss.
This event will take place at The Heath Bookshop and tickets are on sale now.
We look forward to seeing you.
Catherine & Claire
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