Rosie Wilby – The Breakup Monologues
6–7pm
Saturday 5 October
£8
Babasheesh Maidstone, Earl Street, Maidstone, UK
Description
Award-winning comedian, author and podcaster Rosie Wilby explores the science of heartbreak and reveals the truth about how we can turn a breakup into an opportunity for healing, learning and growth. She shares the funny and empowering stories she heard while writing her latest book The Breakup Monologues: The Unexpected Joy of Heartbreak, decodes the new lexicon of breakups, discusses how behaviours like ‘ghosting’ make us feel and investigates the surprising male and female relationship patterns and preferences that are revealed by lesbian and gay divorce statistics.
Copies of The Breakup Monologues will be available for purchase and signing by the author.
Biography
Rosie Wilby is an award-winning comedian, author, speaker and broadcaster who has appeared many times on BBC Radio 4 programmes including Woman's Hour, Saturday Live and Four Thought, TV programmes including Good Morning Britain and Sunday Morning Live and at major festivals around the world. Her latest book The Breakup Monologues combines humour, heartache and science to investigate how on earth to actively stay in a happy, healthy, compassionate relationship in the modern age of ghosting, breadcrumbing and Tinder. It has been described by Red Magazine as a ‘gem of a book’ and is inspired by Rosie’s podcast of the same name.