23 April,
Fiction /
Claire-Louise Bennett: Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
Thursday, 23 April 2026, 8:00pm
The Mick Lally Theatre / €14/16
Book NowWe are delighted to welcome Claire-Louise Bennet to discuss Big Kiss, Bye-Bye.
The things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, visited by memories of all she’s left behind.
What does it mean to connect with another person? What impels us to touch someone, to be touched by them, to stay in touch? How do we let them go? In yet another tour de force of fiction, Claire-Louise Bennett explores the mystery of how people come into and go out of our lives, leaving us forever in their grasp.
Claire-Louise Bennett is the author of Pond (Fitzcarraldo 2015), Checkout 19 (Jonathan Cape, 2021), Fish Out of Water (JOAN press, 2024), and Big Kiss, Bye-Bye (Fitzcarraldo, 2025.)