York Literature Festival presents
Lead Sister: The Life of Karen Carpenter, with Lucy O’Brien
Saturday 18 March, Doors 4pm
Tickets are £10 (+ b/f) in advance (more on the door) and available from See Tickets.
You can buy a combined ticket for this and the earlier PP Arnold In Conversation event for £20 here.

Writer/broadcaster Lucy O’Brien will be talking about her new book Lead Sister: The Story of Karen Carpenter, and the delights and challenges of writing a biography.

She has also published She Bop: The Definitive History of Women in Popular Music, Dusty: The Classic Biography, and Madonna: Like An Icon. In 2020 she co-authored It Takes Blood and Guts with Skin, lead singer of rock band Skunk Anansie.

Lucy will be in conversation with Amy McCarthy from York St John University’s Music Memoir Research Group.

York Literature Festival presents
Lead Sister: The Life of Karen Carpenter, with Lucy O’Brien
Saturday 18 March, Doors 4pm
Tickets are £10 (+ b/f) in advance (more on the door) and available form See Tickets.
You can buy a combined ticket for this and the earlier PP Arnold In Conversation event for £20 here.