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UK LGBT EVENTS - Book Event: Love and Other Thought Experiments with Sophie Ward @ Gay's The Word
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Book Event: Love and Other Thought Experiments with Sophie Ward @ Gay's The Word

The eagerly anticipated dbut novel from actor Sophie Ward, which draws on experimental philosophy to talk about love. An intimate, free, pre-Valentines Day event. Doors 6.55pm. Rachel and Eliza are hoping to have a baby. The couple spend many happy evenings together planning for the future. One night Rachel wakes up screaming and tells Eliza that an ant has crawled into her eye and is stuck there. She knows it sounds mad - but she also knows it's true. As a scientist, Eliza won't take Rachel's fear seriously and they have a bitter fight. Suddenly their entire relationship is called into question. Inspired by some of the best-known thought experiments in philosophy, particularly philosophy of mind, Love and Other Thought Experiments is a story of love lost and found across the universe. 'Sophie Ward is a dazzling talent who writes like a modern-day F Scott Fitzgerald' - Elizabeth Day, author of How To Fail 'An act of such breath-taking imagination, daring and detail that the journey we are on is believable and the debate in the mind non-stop. There are elements of Doris Lessing in the writing - a huge emerging talent here' - Fiona Shaw

Tickets : £ Free Tickets

Address : Gay's The Word Bookshop
66 Marchmont Street
London
WC1N 1AB

Telephone : 020 7278 7654

Website : Click Here

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