why I can’t stand the name ‘Chick Noir’

Oxford Literary Festival Event

 

Here’s a blog post for Lovereading.com  -  ‘Going Going Gone Girl..’ blog post   - about the Oxford Literary Festival, where I did a lively event (‘Chick Noir: why Gone Girl Has Us Hooked’) with the fantastic and very witty India Knight. The evening was made only slightly more comical by a male chair who apparently assumed that our almost entirely female audience must spend their days either in Sainsbury’s or reading Fifty Shades of Grey (or perhaps both? We never quite got to the bottom of that one. We had to get to Sainsbury’s before it shut).