“[Nicole Flattery is] bold, irreverent and agonisingly funny” – Sally Rooney

“Dizz Tate’s talent is brazen – and brilliant.” – Sophie Mackintosh

In two coming of age stories in two very different Americas, Nicole Flattery and Dizz Tate chart the savage, joyful lives of teenage girls fighting for their place in the world.

With razor-sharp and often mordantly comical views of the powerful forces shaping their protagonists’ lives, Flattery and Tate bring to blistering life their characters’ formative years against the backdrop of iconic times in America. Rich with secrets, glamour, and growing pains, Nothing Special and Brutes explore the challenges of girlhood, belonging, and independence.

In Nothing Special, seventeen-year-old Mae’s life in 1966 New York is transformed when she becomes a typist for Andy Warhol, gaining access to a glamorous, hedonistic lifestyle that threatens to sweep her sense of self away. An earthier, but no less captivating, side of the nation features in Tate’s Brutes, a yarn about a gang of teenagers in a Florida village whose idol – the local priest’s glamorous daughter – suddenly goes missing. The friends get ever closer to a dark secret the town has been hiding for much too long.

Flattery and Tate will be in conversation with writer, lecturer and editor Clara Kumagai.

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Nicole Flattery’s first book, the story collection Show Them a Good Time, won the 2020 London Magazine Prize for Debut Fiction and the Kate O’Brien Award.

Dizz Tate is a writer currently living in London, after growing up in Orlando. Her first novel Brutes will be published by Faber and Catapult in early 2023.