Thursday 7th May 2026, 5.15pm

Mordan Hall, St Hugh’s College, Oxford

From St Hugh’s College, Oxford:

Please join us for our latest Writers in Conversation event, featuring two authors discussing their recent publications. St Hugh’s alumna, Lucy Ashe (English Literature, 2007) and Joanna Miller will explore the process of writing fiction in conversation with Professor Nicholas Perkins, St Hugh's Tutorial Fellow in English.

Lucy will be sharing from her book, The Model Patient. Exploring power dynamics in therapy, the early years of the contraceptive pill, and the transitional time between the conservatism of the 1950s and the liberalism of the Swinging Sixties, The Model Patient is a taut psychological novel about identity, power, and the cost of playing the roles we never chose.

Joanna, in turn, will discuss her recent work, The Eights. For the first time in its 1000-year history, the world’s most famous university has admitted female students. Giddy with dreams of equality, education and emancipation, four women move into neighbouring rooms on Corridor Eight of St Hugh’s College.

To register, please click here. The event is completely free and open to all, but booking is required. Refreshments will be provided, too.