An evening with … Kim Willis

No Fair Maidens is part memoir, part exploration of the powerful, often forgotten, ancient goddesses and matriarchs of Britain. In this beautifully written and lyrical work, Kim Willis uses ancient stories and mythologies to question what it means to be a woman today…

About Kim Willis
In her late thirties, Kim Willis was told by a doctor that she’d never be able to conceive children, a conversation that made her question the very course of her life. Living in a warehouse in East London, her life a whirlwind of BBQs and baby showers, Kim felt herself drifting from the traditional path of marriage and motherhood, and yearning for a new set of stories to light her way.Kim Willis is a narrative strategist and journalist based between London and South Wales. She has designed storytelling strategies for Number 10 and the UN, written about wild places for the Guardian and was the founder of ‘Heroine’s Journey’ speaker series.
 

About No Fair Maidens
Returning to her native Wales, Kim Willis immersed herself in stories of ancient goddesses and matriarchs: shape-shifting enchantresses, scaly nymphs and goddesses who once commanded our lands. These are no fair maidens, but powerful warrioresses and animalistic beasts, snaking along the edges of watery places where we meet the otherworld in the shadows.

From Arianrhod and Melusine to Cerridwen and Gwendoline, these are not necessarily heroines the reader will be familiar with, but their stories are powerful, timeless and universal and speak to what it is to be a woman today. Journeying from the Severn to Skye, Eryri to Northumberland, Kim discovered new magic in the tales of old, unveiling forgotten truths about grief and healing, while charting a new course
through sisterhood and sexuality, fertility and freedom. Through the threads of folklore, history and landscape, Kim identifies a better way of being for modern women, and crafts a new vision for Britain where women are – and always were – a force of nature.

Event Format:
Author talk ‘in conversation’, followed by audience Q&A and book signing. 

Tickets:
£10 without book or £23 with book 

Venue:
The Loft at Bookish is located in our flagship store in Crickhowell, accessed from Silver Lane.
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