As part of our ongoing series spotlighting debut authors alongside established novelists, we’re delighted to welcome multi award-winning writer and editor Charlotte Mendelson and vibrant literary newcomer Fran Fabriczki for an open and honest discussion about the joys and challenges of depicting messy mother-daughter dynamics in their fiction.

Like her Booker and Women’s Prize-longlisted novel Almost English, Charlotte Mendelson’s new novel Wife she turns a wry and unflinching eye on the domestic sphere and the complexities of motherhood and female identity. Fran’s debut, Porcupines, is a poignant and witty depiction of a daughter trying to understand where she comes from.

Together they will discuss how they interweave their Hungarian heritage into their fiction and use this as a lens through which to explore cultural difference and belonging, inside and outside the family.