Lisa Taddeo - on Life, Love and Desire

Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women became a world-wide sensation – forever changing how we think about women and desire. Nearly a decade in the making, Three Women was hailed instantly as a feminist classic- a staggering work of nonfiction that was the result of thousands of hours spent in the company of its subjects– three women whose lives reveal profound and previously unspoken truths about life and love, womanhood and desire.

Lisa has contributed to New York magazine, Esquire, Elle, Glamour and many other publications. Her short stories have won two Pushcart Prizes. Her debut novel Animal centres on Joan, the most provocative and mesmerising narrator you will encounter in 2021. 'Like a series of grenades exploding' Marian Keyes

Hadley Freeman grew up in New York City and London. She has been a staff writer at the
Guardian since 2000 and has contributed to many other publications, including Vogue (US and
UK.) She is the author of The Meaning of Sunglasses published by Penguin in 2009, Be Awesome: Modern Essays for Modern Ladies, and Life Moves Pretty Fast: The Lessons We Learned from 80s Movies, published by 4th Estate in 2014 and 2016 respectively. Her family memoir, House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family, is her fourth book. She lives in London with her partner and their three children.