You are invited to celebrate the launch of Louisa Bello's luminous and tender debut novel Where The Shadows End, published by époque press.

Join us on Monday 8th June at Burley Fisher Books for an evening of readings, discussion and celebration with Louisa Bello and Isabelle Baafi, award-winning author of Chaotic Good. Doors at 6:30pm for a 7pm start.

Luminous, unsettling and tender, Where The Shadows End is a powerful meditation on self-acceptance, the nature of guilt and the need to belong.

Sam, a 45-year-old Londoner of dual heritage, has lived his life accompanied by voices no one else can hear. Chief among them is the taunting echo of a childhood bully who refuses to let Sam forget the guilt he carries over his mother’s death. When his elusive, dream-like girlfriend disappears without warning, Sam’s fragile world begins to unravel, and he becomes convinced that only his death can protect those he loves.

As the past and present collide in Sam’s fractured mind, he is drawn into a labyrinth of memory and revelation that challenges everything he thought he knew. But the voices that haunt him may yet become his guides, if he can only find the courage to listen.

"An imortant new voice." - Anthony Joseph

Copies of the book will be available to purchase on the night, or are available to pre-order from époque press now.

Louisa Bello is a British-Nigerian English teacher and writer. Where The Shadows End is her debut novel. It was longlisted for the Pat Kavanagh Prize for Writing Excellence under its former title, and was supported by an Arts Council Time to Write grant. Louisa has led successful creative writing workshops for Africa Writes at the British Library and served as a trustee for the charity Pelican Post, programming authors for Camp Bestival.

Isabelle Baafi is the author of Chaotic Good (Faber & Faber/Wesleyan University Press, 2025), which won the Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. She won the Winchester Poetry Prize 2023 and has been published in Granta, the TLS, The Poetry Review, Callaloo, The London Magazine and elsewhere. She edits at Poetry London and Magma.

www.epoquepress.com

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