My Body, Your Agenda with Midwife Marley & Uttama Kirit Patel

There is a battle for women's bodies and they don’t seem to be winning.  So how do we change positions on the battlefield? Who are we fighting? Is literature the place to fight back?

Brighton Book Festival invites you to join us with world class writers as they look at women's bodies through literature and the battle to have authority and autonomy over them.

Sunday June 22st | 1pm

Uttama Kirit Patel is a writer and magazine founder and editor, and has lived in twelve cities  across three continents. She holds an MPhil in Psychology from the University of Cambridge, has been a semi-finalist in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest, and was nominated for the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers.

Marley is an award winning midwife, hypnobirthing instructor, mother of five and author of 'Midwife Marley's Guide For Everyone: Pregnancy, Birth & The Fourth Trimester'. She has been a midwife in the UK for over 12 years, working in hospitals, homes and the community in both the NHS and private sector.