Blackwell’s are absolutley thrilled to be welcoming Rebecca Watson to Manchester for the launch of her incredible new book I Will Crash – a moving, powerfully honest novel about how we love, how we grieve and how we forgive. Rebecca will be in conversation with Jess White.
I Will Crash will also be available to purchase on the night and Rebecca will be signing copies after the talk.
About the book:
It was a peace offering, I knew that
you don’t appear on someone’s doorstep uninvited, saying Alrightunless you want to make amends
It’s been six years since Rosa last saw her brother. Six years since they last spoke. Six years since they last fought. Six years since she gave up on the idea of having a brother.
She’s spent that time carefully not thinking about him. Not remembering their childhood. Not mentioning those stories, even to the people she loves.
Now the distance she had so carefully put between them has collapsed. Can she find a way to make peace – to forgive, to be forgiven – when the past she’s worked so hard to contain threatens to spill over into the present?
About the author:
Rebecca Watson is part-time Assistant Arts Editor at the Financial Times and one of the Observer’s ten best debut novelists of 2021. She has been published in the TLS, Granta and the Guardian. In 2018, she was shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize, and in 2021, she was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize.
