Compensation: Augustine Cerf in conversation with Sarah Gwonyoma
Description
Join us when we welcome Augustine Cerf to read from and discuss her debut novel COMPENSATION with Sarah Gwonyoma
Georges is dead. Charlotte’s live-at-home, darling son took a blow to his head while out drinking, and she had to find him, still wearing last night’s clothes, lying on top of his sheets. He was only thirty-four.
Left with only her philanderer, porn-addicted husband Erik for company, Charlotte desperately casts around for a way – any way – through her immeasurable grief.
Erik, a surgeon, will remove their dead son’s sperm, and a surrogate will bring his baby into the world. The couple turn to Lena, their undocumented cleaner who has big dreams of her own. And as the once-established power dynamics begin to shift between the trio, desperation and guilt will push all three to their limits.
Fearless, biting, and darkly funny, COMPENSATION is an intoxicating story about delusion, domesticity, and above all, love: the strange shapes it can twist us into, what we’ll justify in its name, the tragedy of being bad at it, and the beauty of loving easily and generously.
Lineup
Augustine Cerf
Augustine Cerf is a London-based writer with an award-winning career in advertising behind her. Compensation is her first novel.
Sarah Gwonyoma
Sarah Gwonyoma is the Founder of the popular online platform What Sarah Read Next. With an acute eye for what the hottest books are, Sarah writes brilliant book reviews for The Sunday Times In Style Magazine and has interviewed an array of notable authors on literary circuit; Douglas Stuart, Abi Morgan, Annie MacManus, David Nicholls, Elif Shafak, Candice Carty-Williams, Michael Rosen and many more. In addition to her interviewing skills. She has also been interviewed about her life and work on various platforms including Annie MacManus Podcast ‘Changes’. Sarah has partnered with The Women’s Prize and Booker Prize, and hosted the Nibbies Podcast with Hannah MacInnes. This year Sarah is a Judge for the Nero Book Awards and Nibbies. Sarah will be hosting the brand new Debut Fiction Series at Latitude Festival this Summer and chairing talks at The Edinburgh Book Festival.
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