Free for RSL Members who should log in to book, £5 for non-Members who can book here. 

Michele Kirsch’s memoir Clean: A Story of Addiction, Recovery and the Removal of Stubborn Stains (Short Books) won the 2020 RSL Christopher Bland Prize, an annual award of £10,000 to a debut novelist or non-fiction writer first published at the age of 50 or over. 

Sara Collins and RSL Director Molly Rosenberg will lead an interactive book club on Zoom. Participants are invited, but not required, to keep their video on and contribute to the discussion, and there will also be a moderator relaying comments from the Chat function. 

We are grateful to independent bookshop Pages of Hackney to organise a book-and-ticket option, including UK postage. 

Ticket Options

RSL Members

• Free to attend or £14 including book and postage

Non-Members

• £5 to attend or £17.50 including book and postage

Email [email protected] to add The Confessions of Frannie Langton by Sara Collins to your order. To become a Member and attend events for free join here.  

Sara Collins studied law at the London School of Economics and worked as a lawyer for seventeen years. Her debut novel, The Confessions of Frannie Langton, won the 2019 Costa Book Awards First Novel Prize and was a Waterstones Book of the Month.