All the Other Mothers Hate Me: In Conversation

The book: Florence Grimes is a 31-year-old party girl who always takes the easy way out. After a dismal end to her girlband career, she's living in West London, single, broke and unfulfilled with only her son Dylan to keep her afloat.

But then Alfie Risby, the ten-year-old heir to a frozen food empire and Dylan’s school rival, mysteriously vanishes on a class trip, and Dylan becomes a prime suspect.

Florence needs to find Alfie and clear her son’s name or risk losing him forever. The only problem? She doesn’t have any detective skills, all the other school mums hate her, and she's just found Alfie’s backpack hidden under her son’s bed…

The author: Sarah Harman is a recovering journalist living in London. She has over a decade of experience reporting on major breaking news around the world, most recently as a foreign correspondent for NBC News, where she reported from five continents for Today, MSNBC and Nightly News. Prior to that she anchored a rolling news broadcast for Deutsche Welle TV in Berlin. All the Other Mothers Hate Me won the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize in 2023. This is her first book.

Join us for an exciting evening with Sarah to discuss the book, her writing process, and the inspiration in fiction writing.