No Filters: Communication and Connection

Tickets for No Filters: Communication and Connection are on sale via National Centre for Writing. Book online at nationalcentreforwriting.org.uk

How can we communicate when things are painful? Is it possible to connect across generational differences? How can parents and teenagers have real, honest conversations?

In this candid and unique discussion, nurse-turned-bestselling-author Christie Watson and her daughter Rowan Egberongbe explore the challenges of talking about mental health across generations.

No Filters: A Mother and Teenage Daughter Love Story is a book for all parents and teenagers going through a tough time, and for friends, grandparents, teachers and healthcare professionals who want to help. Its bare honesty will have you laughing – and possibly crying – out loud as it shows that you are not alone.

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Tickets £12, booking essential
For ages 18+ only
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About Christie Watson

Christie Watson is Professor of Creative Writing at UEA and writer of both fiction and non-fiction. She has written eight books, including Tiny Sunbirds Far Away, which won the Costa First Novel award, and nursing memoir, The Language of Kindness, which became a number one Sunday Times bestseller. Christie is a contributor to the Times, Sunday Times, Guardian, Telegraph and TedX. Her work has been translated into twenty-three languages and adapted for theatre. Killing Me Softly, her latest novel, is out March 2026.

About Rowan Egberongbe

Rowan wrote this book between the ages of sixteen and eighteen. She is now studying Classics at university and spent the summer volunteering in Borneo.