Pages of Loss with Cariad Lloyd & Tessa McWatt

Come and join us in a heartfelt and open discussion about grief and loss.

What is grief? What is it to lose, a thing, a place, a person, a way of being? How are we impacted by grief and loss? 

Brighton Book Festival is joined by  stellar authors who will help us to dig deep and explore these questions, considering what grief looks like across cultures and the lasting impact it can have.

Saturday June 21st | 7 pm

Cariad Lloyd is a writer, actor, comedian and podcaster. In 2016, she created the Griefcast, a podcast where she spoke to comedians about their experiences of grief and death. Previous guests included Adam Buxton, Aisling Bea, David Baddiel, Monty Don and Susan Wokoma. Her book, based on the podcast, You Are Not Alone, was published in January 2023 to critical acclaim and became a Times Bestseller. She has appeared in Changing Ends, Alan Partridge, Murder in Successville, Peep Show, Have I Got News For You, Would I Lie To You and QI. Her first children’s book, Lydia Marmalade and the Christmas Wish was published in Dec 2024, and in May of this year she will publish a picture book about grief, called Where Did She Go?

Tessa McWatt is the author of seven novels and two books for young people. Her fiction has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award, the City of Toronto Book Awards, and the OCM Bocas Prize. She is one of the winners of the Eccles British Library Award 2018, for her memoir: Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging, which won the Bocas Prize for Non-Fiction 2020 and was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Prize and the Governor General's Award. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is also a librettist, and works on interdisciplinary projects and community-based life writing through CityLife: Stories Against Loneliness.