Table for One: Emma Gannon in conversation with Francesca Specter

Join us at Second Home Spitalfields as we welcome Emma Gannon with Francesca Specter to discuss Emma’s new novel Table for One – a story about modern love, independence, and finding happiness on your own terms.

Emma’s latest book explores a question many of us quietly ask: does happiness come from being in a relationship, or can it be found outside one? Table for One follows Willow, whose ‘perfect’ life unravels, pushing her to rediscover the most important relationship of all – the one with herself.

With warmth and wit, Emma Gannon offers a fresh, empowering take on what it means to lead your own life in a world obsessed with coupledom.

About our speakers:

Emma Gannon is the award-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author of eight books, including her latest non-fiction, A Year of Nothing, and Olive, her debut novel, which was nominated for the Dublin Literary Award. Emma also runs the popular Substack newsletter, The Hyphen, hosts creativity retreats all over the world, and she is a judge for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction.

Francesca Specter is the London-based author of the non-fiction title Alonement: How to be Alone & Absolutely Own It, a Times book of the year, and host of the Alonement podcast. A lifestyle journalist for over a decade, she’s written for every major UK broadsheet including The Guardian, The Independent and the Financial Times, together with The New York Times. She has been writing her bestselling Substack newsletter, The Shoulds, since 2022.