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On Being Other: Primadonna 2021

On Being Other: Primadonna 2021

Primadonna Festival
2022-02-11

Join writer and journalist Bee Rowlatt as she introduces this year’s Costa winner Monique Roffey, author of the remarkable novel The Mermaid of Black Conch, and Natalie Morris, whose debut title Mixed/Other came out in 2021. Together they explore shared themes of otherness, outsider

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