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Award-winning Radio 4 regular comedian Rosie Wilby launches her non-fiction debut Is Monogamy Dead? at Gay's The Word as part of Pride in London festival. Rosie will perform funny and poignant sections of the book before joining assistant editor of DIVA Magazine Carrie J. Lyell in conversation about some of the more serious, thorny questions raised. Buy exclusive early copies of the book and get them signed by Rosie four days before official publication date. A Free event with complimentary refreshments thanks to Jez Atkinson and Tom Pegg - please RSVP on Facebook so we have a sense of numbers. Is Monogamy Dead? In early 2013, comedian Rosie Wilby found herself at a crossroads with everything she'd ever believed about romantic relationships. When people asked, 'who's the love of your life?', there was no simple answer. Did they mean her former flatmate who she'd experienced the most ecstatic, heady, yet ultimately doomed, fling with? Or did they mean the deep, lasting companionate partnerships that gave her a sense of belonging and family? Surely, most human beings needed both. Mixing humour, heartache and science, Is Monogamy Dead? details Rosie's very personal quest to find out why Western society is clinging to a concept that doesn't work that well for some of us and is laden with ambiguous assumptions. After all, what counts as 'cheating?' Is it sex, kissing, texting, flirting or simply... thinking about someone else? If so, then we are all in a whole heap of trouble. Or can we, like some of Rosie's interviewees, create our own new rules around fidelity to navigate the complex minefield of twenty-first century relationships? About Rosie Wilby:Rosie has appeared on BBC Radio 4s Loose Ends, Summer Nights, Four Thought, Midweek, The Human Zoo and Womans Hour and at festivals including Glastonbury, Secret Garden Party, Green Man, Larmer Tree and Latitude. She was a finalist at Funny Women 2006 and Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2007 and shes been touring award-winning solo shows and steadily building a word-of-mouth army of fans ever since. Her writing has been published in The Sunday Times, The Guardian, The Independent, New Statesman and more. Her first book Is Monogamy Dead will be published by Accent Press in July 2017 and follows her TEDx talk of the same name. She was a runner up in the 2014 Mslexia memoir competition and the only UK writer selected for the 2016 LAMBDA writers' retreat at the University of Southern California. She co-hosts Radio Diva on Resonance FM alongside Heather Peace and has presented for BBC Sussex and Surrey. Her award-winning show The Science Of Sex was programmed by New York Citys Fresh Fruit Festival 2013. She has also performed in Los Angeles and at Sydney Mardi Gras. www.rosiewilby.com - www.rosiewilbynews.blogspot.co.uk

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