Books about painful lives sell. What is it that makes us so hungry to read these stories? And what compels authors to write them? The panel includes Laura Lockington, Colm O’Gorman, Elizabeth Haynes, Dan Davies and Una; all writers who have survived abuse, novelists for whom abuse surfaces as a theme and clinicians and academics who deal with it both in writing and their daily practice. Visit sickfestival.com to book tickets. Presented in association with Dark and Stormy.15