Join us with Nora Lange in conversation with Lamorna Ash at Waterstones Islington on 16 June, 6:30pm GMT.

Join us with Nora Lange, in conversation with Lamorna Ash, to discuss Nora's debut novel Us Fools - a tragicomic, award-winning novel of two precocious sisters coming of age during the midwest farm crisis in 1980s America - and her short fiction collection Day Care - stories of lust, estrangement, and self-preservation which are at once hilarious and savage.

Nora Lange's debut novel Us Fools was awarded The Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction, named a best book of 2024 by The Boston Globe and NPR, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice pick. Her writing has appeared in The Believer, BOMB, Hazlitt, and elsewhere. Lange’s ‘Hot Spot’, featured in The New Yorker’s July 2025 summer flash fiction series.

Lamorna Ash is a writer and freelance journalist based in London. Her first book, Dark, Salt, Clear: Life in a Cornish Fishing Town, was a radio 4 book of the Week, won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize. Her latest book, Don't Forget We're Here Forever, was a Waterstones Book of the Month for April 2026.

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