# Event Details - **Event Name**: An Evening with...Lucie McKnight Hardy - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 14 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm (+01:00) - **Event Description**: Join us in conversation with Lucie who grew up in West Wales and is a Welsh speaker and now lives in Hay-on-Wye. Her most recent book has been heralded as a ‘claustrophobic folk horror’ by Sunday Times Style About Lucie McKnight Hardy Lucie McKnight Hardy is the author of Water Shall Refuse Them, which was shortlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition and long listed for the Caledonia Novel Award and the short story collection, Dead Relatives. Both were picked as Waterstones Welsh Book of the Month. About Night Babies Is the house haunted? Or is it her? Things were looking up for Astrid Aspden and her partner, Kit, until their house flooded. With Astrid’s first solo art exhibition just weeks away, her paintings are ruined and excitement has turned to despair. She is thrown a lifeline when her best friend Flora invites her to stay in a run-down chapel she and her partner, Sim, are renovating in the Brecon Beacons. As Astrid and Kit settle into their new surroundings to salvage her work, they soon learn about the unsettling history of the chapel and what lies beneath the nearby reservoir. As the weeks go by, tensions simmer between Astrid and Flora as sour memories flare up from their teenage past and deep wounds are laid bare from an ill-fated school trip to Florence. Her relationship with Kit begins to fray as the chapel and the surrounding hostile beauty of the valley begin to intrude on their lives. Astrid throws herself into her work but the longer she spends in the chapel the more she begins to notice things: handprints on her paintings, shadowy figures reflected in the reservoir and voices whispering in the night. As the darkness of the Welsh valley closes in on Astrid, will she be able to run from the looming horror or be consumed by it? Event Format: Author talk ‘in conversation’, followed by audience Q&A and book signing. Tickets: £10 without book or £22 with book Venue: The Loft at Bookish is located in our flagship store in Crickhowell, accessed from Silver Lane. Please let us know if you have an accessibility/mobility requirements. Refunds: It is our general policy not to refund event tickets unless an event has sold out. In the case of sold out events where we have a waiting list for tickets, we will attempt to sell on your tickets at face value, if notified 7 days prior to the event. If sold, you will receive a refund for the ticket value. Alternatively, you can request to transfer your tickets to another event, making up any difference in ticket price. Please contact us if you are unable to attend an event: info@book-ish.co.uk for further advice. 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Please talk to a team member should you not wish to be recorded. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/govilon/an-evening-withlucie-mcknight-hardy/200029926976413 - **Event Categories**: Art, fine-arts, literary-art, Exhibitions, trips-adventures, Contests - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details ## Event venue details - **city**: Govilon - **state**: WA - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: 18,High Street, NP8 1BD Crickhowell, United Kingdom - **lat**: 51.85866 - **long**: -3.13769 - **full address**: 18,High Street, NP8 1BD Crickhowell, United Kingdom, Webbs Of Crickhowell, 11 High Street, Crickhowell, NP8 1BD, United Kingdom, Govilon ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: An Evening with...Lucie McKnight Hardy - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/41bd59700c335a9532097bdc98c863a4ef46835e543d45ad1d31676da2a2355e-rimg-w1200-h676-dc38a920-gmir?v=1775898732 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is An Evening with...Lucie McKnight Hardy being held? - **A:** An Evening with...Lucie McKnight Hardy takes place on Thu, 14 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm to Thu, 14 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm at 18,High Street, NP8 1BD Crickhowell, United Kingdom, Webbs Of Crickhowell, 11 High Street, Crickhowell, NP8 1BD, United Kingdom, Govilon. - **Q**: Who is organizing An Evening with...Lucie McKnight Hardy? - **A:** An Evening with...Lucie McKnight Hardy is organized by [book-ish]. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "An Evening with...Lucie McKnight Hardy", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/41bd59700c335a9532097bdc98c863a4ef46835e543d45ad1d31676da2a2355e-rimg-w1200-h676-dc38a920-gmir?v=1775898732", "startDate": "2026-05-14T19:30:00+01:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/govilon/an-evening-withlucie-mcknight-hardy/200029926976413", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "18,High Street, NP8 1BD Crickhowell, United Kingdom", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "Webbs Of Crickhowell, 11 High Street, Crickhowell, NP8 1BD, United Kingdom", "addressLocality": "Govilon", "addressRegion": "WA", "addressCountry": "GB" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "51.85866", "longitude": "-3.13769" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us in conversation with Lucie who grew up in West Wales and is a Welsh speaker and now lives in Hay-on-Wye. 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