Lucy Kellaway on starting a new career in her 50s

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In this unmissable event, 5x15 brings together a line up of outstanding writers and thinkers to share their stories and explore the complex challenges of the modern world. From education to homelessness, race, consumerism, climate change, class and workplace rivalry - these new and established voices challenge us to see the world in a new way.

For years Lucy Kellaway’s life was the model of success- a columnist at the Financial Times, married to the same hubsand for decades, she appeared happy with an outwardly enviable life. But she began to realise that the life she had built for herself no longer suited her. Her book, Re-educated: How I changed my job, my home, my husband and my hair, is a celebration of education's power to transform lives, an exploration of our schools today, and a reminder that there can be new beginnings at any age. 'Everyone over 50 needs to read this bracing and inspirational book' - Nigella Lawson.

Drawing on her first-hand experience of the high-pressure, starkly white world of book publishing, novelist Zakiya Dalila Harris joins us from America to talk about The Other Black Girl. At once a gripping thriller and a witty and shrewd piece of social commentary, The Other Black Girl, was an instant New York Times best seller and is one of the most talked about debut novels of the year. 'The funniest, wildest, deepest, most thought-provoking ride of a book' Attica Locke.

Raynor Winn's first book, The Salt Path, charted her extraordinary journey around the South West Coastal Path, as she battled homelessness, financial uncertainty and her husband Moth’s terminal illness. The book spent 80 weeks in the Sunday Times best seller charts and has inspired millions with its tale of the healing power of nature, resilience and human endurance. She comes to 5x15 to talk about her new book, The Wild Silence, one couple’s inextricable connection to the land, and the new challenge of rewilding a Cornish farm.

Why do we consume the way we do? Aja Barber is a writer and stylist with over 230,000 followers on Instagram, whose work explores the connections between contemporary consumerism, colonial oppression and climate change. Through her own story, she explores the endemic injustices in our consumer industries and confronts the uncomfortable history of the textile industry- challenging us to become citizens not consumers and to recognise the need for collective action and change. Her new book is called Consumed.

Hannah Rothschild - award winning writer, documentary filmmaker and businesswoman - returns to 5x15 to discuss her latest novel, The House of Trelawney - about an eccentric, dysfunctional family of English aristocrats, and their crumbling stately home that reminds us how the lives and hopes of women can still be shaped by the ties of family and love. Her previous novel, The Improbability of Love, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for best comic novel and was shortlisted for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction.

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** Hannah Rothschild, Aja Barber, Zakiya Dalila Harris, Lucy Kellaway and Raynor Winn

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