Lorna Tucker for BARE: On Female Homelessness

Lorna Tucker is an artist, writer and filmmaker, who has secured her place as one of the most exciting documentary directors working today, known for tackling big social themes with humour, ease and grace.

Her first feature documentary, Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist, was an Official Selection at Sundance 2018. Her subsequent documentaries include: Ama, about the sterilisation abuse of Native American women over the past 60 years; Someone's Daughter, Someone's Son, chronicling stories of homelessness in the UK; and Call Me Kate, about the inner life of screen legend Katharine Hepburn.

She was named one of the biggest breakout female filmmakers by Harper's Bazaar and Elle in 2018, and one of Creative England's CE50 the following year.

She has written articles for British Vogue and the Guardian and her first solo art exhibition will open at Saatchi Gallery in Spring 2026.

Lorna joins us for her first book, Bare.

I, Lorna Tucker, have lived a life that most you can't even begin to imagine...

I have lived on London's wet, piss-soaked streets. I have lived with the warm, sweet embrace of heroin. I have lived in hostels with my newborn baby. I have lived so much that I barely made it out alive.

I have lied, thieved and stripped. I have tricked you into giving me money. And you've wished I didn't exist. You've looked away; you've been disgusted. I could be your daughter, your lover... you- all of us are closer to the brink than we'd like to think.

I didn't die though. I lived... And it's time to tell my story.

Come to hell and back with me.

"THE FIRST-EVER BOOK ABOUT FEMALE HOMELESSNESS."

'A chronicle of her remarkable journey' GUARDIAN

'A masterpiece... Bare is a truly inspirational story and an essential read that showcases the resilience of the human spirit.' JUANO DIAZ, author of Slum Boy