Book Club Meets: Homelessness and addiction, with Lorna Tucker
Happy Place2 Mai 2025

Book Club Meets: Homelessness and addiction, with Lorna Tucker

Bare is the vital true story of Lorna Tucker’s fight to survive living on the streets of London. She had to lie, steal, strip, and just about everything in between to survive. This really important portrait of female homelessness was April’s Happy Place Book Club read.


In this chat with Fearne, author and filmmaker Lorna explains how chance – those five minutes that seem insignificant at the time – can send your life in a completely different direction.


She talks through the reality of all the different reasons people might end up living on the street, and why she has so much empathy, and a desire to understand, what drives addiction and violence.


Plus, Fearne and Lorna share how their brains can spiral into dread and insecurity, and offer advice on how to work through shame about perceived flaws.


Thank you to Brazen for the use of Bare audiobook, narrated by Lorna Tucker.


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