Join bestselling author and women’s health campaigner Kate Muir and award-winning novelist and and gardening columnist Charlotte Mendelson for a lively conversation about navigating and celebrating midlife.

Kate Muir is renowned for her groundbreaking work on menopause, including two award-winning Channel 4 documentaries with Davina McCall. Her latest book, How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis, reframes the “second half” of life as a time of transformation, offering reassurance, expertise, and practical guidance to help women thrive.

Charlotte Mendelson’s acclaimed novels, includingThe Exhibitionist (2022) andWife (2024), explore midlife as a moment of truth. Her characters wrestle with years of self-denial and the urgent question of identity, dramatising the tension between duty and self-fulfilment in stories that are both painfully funny and deeply resonant.

Age recommendation 14+

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Award-winning novelist, journalist and gardening aficionado, Charlotte Mendelson (When We Were Bad, Almost English, Rhapsody in Green, The Exhibitionist) is interviewed by Roisín Ingle, Irish Times columnist, feature writer and co-producer of the Irish Times Women’s Podcast.

The Exhibitionist is the extraordinary fifth novel from award-winning Charlotte Mendelson, a dazzling exploration of art, sacrifice, toxic family politics, queer desire, and personal freedom. Charlotte will be joined in conversation by author Kate Muir.

Listen to Charlotte talking to Emma Barnett live on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour about The Exhibitionist, and other things.

Iris Murdoch centenary event October 2019 with Peter Conradi

Charlotte will be in conversation with her favourite food writer, Nigella Lawson, in Guildford to celebrate twenty years since How To Eat.  For more information and tickets, click here: https://glive.co.uk/Online/tickets-nigella-lawson-guildford-2018

Charlotte will be discussing THE SPARSHOLD AFFAIR with the great Alan Hollinghurst at the Charleston Literary Festival, Lewes, Sussex.  For more information and to buy tickets, please go to the Charleston Festival website.

Charlotte will be discussing the joy of gardening with Penelope Lively and Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg at Jewish Book Week this Sunday at 3.30, at King's Place, London NW1.  Tickets and more information here: http://www.jewishbookweek.com/events-new/gardens-delight

At Imperial College Union, Prince Consort Road, Kensington London SW7

Inspired by tonight's performance of David Sawer's The Greatest Happiness Principle, the second in a series of talks about mood and emotion in art and literature, with Charlotte Mendelson.

About This Event

Novelist Charlotte Mendelson asks why writers seem reluctant to engage with happiness and why so much literature is full of unhappy people. She’s joined by psychologist and broadcaster Claudia Hammond, presenter of Radio 4’s All In The Mind programme and author of Emotional Rollercoaster: A Journey Through the Science of Feelings.

Edited version broadcast on BBC Radio 3 during tonight's interval.

Booking is not required for this event. Entry is on a first-come-first-served basis (doors open from 30 minutes before the event begins; capacity is limited).

Image: Charlotte Mendelson © Graeme Robertson

Part of

Proms 2017

See http://www.stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com/ for details

Charlotte will be in conversation with Tracy Chevalier, Romesh Gunesekera and Stef Penney about writing fiction and the British Library.  To find out more: https://www.bl.uk/events/the-writer-in-the-library

To celebrate the launch of her first ever non-fiction book, Rhapsody in Green, Charlotte will be starting our 2017 series of Thursday Supper Talks with a talk and book signing. Rhapsody in Green is a portrait of Charlotte’s “laughably tiny garden” which she approached with no prior knowledge and high hopes before becoming a “slave to an urban jungle”! She grows over one hundred things to eat in her garden.
Charlotte Mendelson is a British novelist and editor who was chosen as one of Waterstone’s 25 authors of the future in 2007.

Ticket price includes a glass of wine. You can also make a reservation for supper at the award-winning Tangerine Dream Café for either before or after the talk, costs an additional £19 to be paid on the night of the talk. Please call the cafe directly: 020 7349 6464

Supper: additional £19 to be paid on the night of the talk (5.45pm or 8.30pm sitting) buffet includes mixed salads, meat or vegetable dishes, dessert and a drink.

Please select ‘Supper Talks’ and choose which talk you would like to book:http://chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk/event/rhapsody-in-green-charlotte-mendelson/

Charlotte will be in conversation with the acclaimed cookery author Diana Henry at Waterstone's Kings Road.  For more information, go to https://www.waterstones.com/events/an-evening-with-diana-henry-and-charlotte-mendelson/london-kings-road

8pm at the All Saints Centre, Friars Walk, Lewes BN7 2LE - to find out more, see http://www.lewesliterarysociety.co.uk/

Charlotte will be talking at Highgate Library about Rhapsody in Green, gardening and fiction.  More information: http://www.dartmouthpark.org/FOHL/events

Charlotte will be reading from and talking about Rhapsody in Green at the RHS October show in London - for more information about timing and to book tickets, see https://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/rhs-london-shows/rhs-london-shades-of-autumn-show

Come and hear Charlotte read from Rhapsody in Green and answer questions at Daunt Books, 53 South End Green Road, London NW3 2QB or for more information contact hampstead@dauntbooks.co.uk - 020 7794 8206

Best described as a love letter to her garden, Rhapsody In Green by award-winning novelist Charlotte Mendelson is helpfully and succinctly subtitled ‘A novelist, an obsession, a laughably small excuse for a vegetable garden’, and is a thing of beauty as well as being a gardening book like no other.

And, as luck would have it, Charlotte has agreed to tear herself away from her weeding to spend time with us on 12th Oct reading, answering questions and signing copies of Rhapsody In Green from 7.30. Entry is free, but please book your place via 0207 431 3770 or info@welbooks.co.uk

Charlotte talks to Jenni Murray about Rhapsody in Green, not understanding flowers and what led to her inconvenient passion for her tiny garden

Twenty years as an editor, twenty years as a novelist...it's rare to have so much experience of fiction from both ends of the publishing process. Come on my next creative writing masterclass, and I'll help you make your novel as strong as it can possibly be...details to follow

You know your novel? The one that's been hanging around for years, never quite becoming as good as you want it to be?  Let's sort it out.

http://www.theguardian.com/guardian-masterclasses/2015/jul/09/how-to-improve-your-novel-with-charlotte-mendelson-writing-course