Unfinished Business: An Evening with Freya North
Friday 10 October 2025
7–8pm
£8
Maidstone Museum, Saint Faith's Street, Maidstone, UK
Event Description
Join beloved British novelist Freya North, author of 16 bestselling novels including the award-winning Pillow Talk and Richard & Judy pick Little Wing, as she explores identity, friendship, and self-discovery in her latest moving novel, The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne.
Freya North has sold over two million books worldwide, won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award (Pillow Talk, 2008), and earned a Richard & Judy Bookclub selection for Little Wing. Her latest novel has been praised as “a delightful dose of nostalgia” (HEAT) and “beautifully moving” (Lucy Atkins). Don’t miss this chance to delve into the heartache, hilarity, and hope of modern womanhood with one of Britain’s most successful and uplifting storytellers.
✨ Event Highlights
In Conversation: Hear Freya discuss her writing journey, inspiration, and the themes behind The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne in an engaging live interview.
Audience Q&A: Ask your questions about Freya’s characters, creative process, and long-standing career in contemporary fiction.
Book Signing: Purchase a copy on the night or bring your own – Freya will be signing books after the event.
Join us for a warm and insightful evening of connection, conversation, and brilliant storytelling. Book your ticket today.
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'You really must read this book. A rare and phenomenal life affirming read' DINAH JEFFERIES
'Get ready to fall in love with Eadie Browne, the eponymous and eccentric heroine of this tender-hearted, steeped-in-nostalgia story about chosen family' RED
When your present meets your past, what do you take with you - and what do you leave behind?
Eadie Browne is a quirky kid living in a small town where nothing much happens. Bullied at school, she muddles her way through the teenage years with best friends Celeste and Josh until University takes them their separate ways.
Arriving in Manchester as a student in the late 1980s, Eadie experiences a novel freedom and it's intoxicating. As the city embraces the dizzying euphoria of Rave counterculture, Eadie is swept along, ignoring danger and reality. Until, one night, her past comes hurtling at her with consequences she could never have imagined.
Now, as the new millennium approaches, Eadie is thirty with a marriage in tatters, travelling back to the town of her birth for a funeral she can't quite comprehend. As she journeys from the North to the South, from the present to the past, Eadie contemplates all that was then and all that is now - and the loose ends that must be tied before her future can unfold.
'A delightful dose of nostalgia' HEAT
'A beautifully written tale about growing up, letting go and moving on' SUN
'A gorgeous, heartfelt, atmospheric novel by a wonderful storyteller' LUCY ATKINS
'A beautifully moving portrait of youth, friendship and love . . . I loved it' MIKE GAYLE
'Beautifully written, funny and wise . . . heart-breaking and heart-warming' ALEXANDRA POTTER
Biography
Freya North is the author of 16 bestselling novels, including her debut Sally (1996), Pillow Talk (winner of the Romantic Novelists’ Association Award, 2008), The Turning Point (2016), the Richard & Judy Book Club selection Little Wing (2022), and her latest, The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne (2024) — a love letter to youth, friendship, growing up in the 1980s, and to Manchester.
A strong sense of place is central to her writing, with previous novels set in locations as diverse as Derbyshire, Teesside, North Norfolk, the Scottish Highlands and Islands, Vermont, France, and British Columbia.
Freya is a passionate reader and advocate for literature. She founded and ran the Hertford Children’s Book Festival, has judged the Costa Book Awards, and is a patron of the Society of Women Writers & Journalists. She is also an ambassador for Bowel Cancer UK and a patron of Pointers In Need.
She holds degrees in Art History from the University of Manchester and the Courtauld Institute, London, and loves teaching at writing workshops. She’s currently deciding which novel to write next — with several ideas already battling for attention.