Pleasure Beach is a queer love story set in Blackpool on one day: 16th June 1999. Written in multiple voices and styles, the novel by Blackpool-born writer Helen Palmer, follows the interconnecting journeys and thoughts of three young women over the course of 24 hours and over 18 chapters which are structured and themed in the same way as Homer’s Odyssey and James Joyce’s Ulysses.Palmer launches the book with Amina Atiq.
Sunday, November 15