We are thrilled to welcome Heidi Hinda Chadwick to Blackwell’s to celebrate the publication of her novel The Story of the Deer Woman. Heidi will be in conversation with Blackwell’s James Daviss.

Doors: 6.30pm, Starts: 6.45pm

Tickets are £4 or admission is free when purchasing a Book & Ticket option.

About the Book:

After a chance encounter inside the Manchester Museum, an ordinary woman finds her life beginning to unravel in wild and impossible ways. Reality blurs. Desire stirs. Antlers bloom. What follows is a journey into metamorphosis, myth and the hidden animal inside us all.

Chadwick’s writing is vivid, lyrical and daring. Influenced by the unsettling brilliance of Mona Awad, Bora Chung, Sayaka Murata and Ottessa Moshfegh, she creates a world where the macabre meets the human, where power and eros live at the edges, and where the strange becomes a kind of truth.

About the Author:

Heidi Hinda Chadwick is a writer, performer, and a Trauma-Informed Educator & Artist, based in Manchester. She writes short stories, novellas, and essays exploring the macabre, and the psychological intricacies of human experience, often drawing on folklore, psychology, body horror, femgore, twisting traditional fairytales and exploring contemporary anxieties.

If you cannot make the event but would like a dedicated copy of the book, please email events.manchester@blackwell.co.uk or call us on 0161 274 3331.

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