Rose Wilding on Cherry - Monday 16 November, 7.30pm

ROSE WILDING IS BACK and we could not be more excited! Rose will be coming to Collected to talk all about her new novel Cherry - with the equally amazing Lucy Rose, author of The Lamb, asking the questions!

Cherry is published on 5 November.

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After the death of her partner, Gifty is haunted by her mistakes. Her only distraction is Cherry, a missing nineties pop star who everyone else has forgotten. Gifty has nothing left to lose and will hunt Cherry down if it's the last thing she does.

Ally has sacrificed so much to get the life she always dreamed of. She has the beautiful house, the loving family and a successful career. When it all begins to crumble around her, she will do anything to stop it falling apart.

Determined to leave her difficult past behind, Isobel reinvents herself and sinks into a quiet suburban life. When someone begins to unravel the truth about her, she discovers the lengths she is willing to go to in order to keep her secrets safe.

Three women become tangled in a horrifying web of infatuation and murder in this dark and compulsive thriller from the author of Speak of the Devil.

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Rose Wilding is a queer, working class writer with an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Manchester.

She lived in Newcastle Upon Tyne until she was 27, where she worked in customer service, collecting idiosyncrasies from everyone she met. While living in Manchester, she tried to escape twice- the first time resulting in her being locked down in a camper van in a Macclesfield car park, and the second ending in a (very affable) divorce. She now lives back in the North East and co-owns and runs an independent bookshop in Monkseaton.

Her philosophy on life is: either things go well or you get a good story out of it. If things go really badly, you get a novel out of it.