Join us for an evening at The Common Press to celebrate the paperback launch of Lucy Webster’s memoir The View From Down Here.
This powerful, honest, hilarious, and furious memoir from journalist and advocate Lucy Webster explores life at the intersection capturing the struggles, joys, and unseen realities of being a disabled woman. From navigating education and work, dating and friendship, and managing care, to contemplating motherhood and learning to accept your body against a pervasive narrative that it is somehow broken and in need of fixing, The View From Down Here shines a light on what it really means to move through the world as a disabled woman.
The event will begin at 7:30pm and will feature a conversation between Lucy Webster and Ellen Jones, author of Outrage, followed by an opportunity for audience questions.
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“A sharp, funny & deeply beautiful memoir that doesn’t shy away from the realities of disabled life & instead takes power from the. Every disabled woman needs to read this… And then read it again! - Ruth Madeley
“Lucy Webster’s book is an honest and refreshing read that should be mandatory reading. Her writing is incredibly genuine, honest and deeply emotional in a way that stays with you afterwards. A thoroughly recommended read!” - CJ Debarra, Author
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About the author:
Lucy
Lucy Webster is an anti-ableism campaigner working across journalism, publishing, events, community organising and social media to create a more accessible and more inclusive world for disabled people. She covers disability issues for leading publications like the Guardian, the Sunday Times and the FT. Her journalism aims to demystify disability and challenge ableist
assumptions, while fairly and accurately representing disabled people and their stories.
Lucy’s writing focuses on areas as varied as the cultural representation of disability, government disability policy, and everyday ableism. She has particular expertise on how disability intersects with other marginalised identities. Her first book, The View From Down Here, is a memoir of life lived at the intersection of ableism and sexism, and a rallying call for disabled women to be fully included in a new feminism.
Lucy is the co-founder of Every Body Queer, an events initiative providing spaces for disabled LGBTQ+ people to meet, share experiences and create change within the queer community and beyond.
About the host:
Ellen
Ellen Jones is an author, strategist, and award-winning campaigner recognised as one of the UK’s leading voices on inclusion. She is known for making complex conversations about LGBTQ+ equality, neurodivergence, and disability clear, engaging, and actionable.
Her debut book, Outrage: Why the Fight for LGBTQ+ Equality Is Not Yet Won and What You Can Do About It (Bluebird Pan Macmillan, 2025), has been praised for its honesty and urgency- part rallying cry, part handbook for change.