Follow Her with Anna Stothard - Jersey Festival of Words 2026

Would you know if a psychic was lying to you? For six months, novelist Anna Stothard worked as a telephone psychic, learning how belief can be shaped and sold. She is not remotely psychic.

She brings these insights to her gripping novel Follow Her, where a young woman is drawn into an online wellness community that becomes a modern cult.

Anna will explore belief, online influence and psychic tricks of the trade – revealing how subtle observation and reading cues can make us all better storytellers.

Join her for a discussion of writing, cults, and con-artists – and why we so often want to be fooled.