Don’t miss comedian Sara Pascoe in conversation with Lucy Caldwell on her award-winning novel, Weirdo, the tragicomic story of a young woman navigating life, relationships and work – while trying to seem normal. 

Chris has re-entered Sophie’s life, just as she’s finally stopped thinking about him. Now Sophie has a chance to create a happier ending. All she has to do is act normal and not say any of her inner monologue out loud. 

If she can suppress her light paranoia and pathological lying, maybe she’ll get the guy she wants?

Meet the Writers

Sara Pascoe is a critically acclaimed comedian, author and screenwriter whose latest stand-up show I Am a Strange Gloop was her biggest ever and toured the UK, Australia and Canada through 25/26. As a TV regular in the UK Sara has appeared on the likes of Taskmaster (C4), Live at the Apollo (BBC Two), QI (BBC Two), 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Channel 4) and Mock the Week (BBC Two) to name a few. In Australia she has appeared on Spicks and Specks and HYBPA?. As an author, Sara released her first novel Weirdo in 2023, following Sunday Times Best Selling non-fiction book Sex, Power, Money. Sara’s break out book Animal - which combined autobiography with evolutional history, was developed into a full BBC sitcom, Out of Her Mind and she has two original TV series in development, The Godmother with Sunburnt Penguin for Channel 4 and Hotel Nowhere with Joy Studios.

Born in Belfast in 1981, Lucy Caldwell is the author of four novels, several stage plays and radio dramas, and three previous collections of short stories. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018, she was also the editor of Being Various: New Irish Short Stories in 2019, and has won the E. M. Forster Award, from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Walter Scott Prize among others.