Margate Bookshop event

29th May 2025

Fort Road Hotel Bar

Author Emma Gannon chats to Daisy Buchanan about her latest novel Table for One, an affirming self-love letter to solo diners everywhere at Fort Road Hotel Bar

7pm - 9pm

Emma’s new novel is a conversation-starting story about leading your own life – not following. It asks a question we all think, and don’t voice enough: why do we set so much store in relationships? Does true happiness lie inside a relationship, or outside of one?

Willow is having quite the year. One moment she’s climbing the ladder of life achievements – the boyfriend, the grown-up house, the steady career – the next it’s 4pm and she’s swaddled in her duvet, wondering what went wrong. Blinking into the light of a day that looks completely unfamiliar, and alienated from her friends who are busy ‘moving forwards’, Willow has never felt more alone. But she’s in good company. Because when inspiration arrives from an unlikely place - ‘the poster girl for single life’, influencer Naz Chopra - Willow can start to rekindle a relationship she’s long neglected: the one with herself.

The wonderful Fort Road Hotel host these meet-ups in their basement bar with a delicious selection of drinks and snacks.

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