Join award winning novelists Kate Sawyer and Emma Healey for an evening of fascinating conversation to celebrate the release of Kate Sawyer's brand new novel Getting Away. Two leading lights of contemporary fiction in one place, this is bound to be a fantastic night!
Tickets are £5 for general admission or £20 for admission and a copy of Getting Away. Emma Healey's new book Sweat will also be available to purchase on the night.
About the Books:
Getting Away: In lush, evocative prose, Kate Sawyer delivers a captivating, ambitious novel that explores the transformation of one family through their various holidays.
'From its brilliant, ambitious premise (a story told through family holidays) to its complex and wholly absorbing characters, Getting Away is a moving insight into the beautiful complexity of ordinary lives.' - Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things
Sweat:From the author of modern classic Elizabeth is Missing comes another breathtakingly suspenseful page-turner boasting an unforgettable narrator.
'An inspired set-up. A clever dynamic that paves the way for a cat-and-mouse thriller. Propulsive' - Sunday Times
About the Authors:
Kate Sawyer worked as an actor and producer before writing several short films then turning her hand to fiction.
Her second novel This Family was a Waterstones Book Of The Month and Paperback of the Year. Her debut, The Stranding, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, won the East Anglian Book Award for fiction, was adapted for BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime and is being developed for the screen.
Emma Healey’s debut novel, Elizabeth is Missing, tackled dementia through the prism of a missing persons mystery. It sold over a million copies worldwide, won the Costa First Novel Award, and was made into a BBC film starring Glenda Jackson (who won a BAFTA and an International Emmy for her portrayal of Maud).
Emma's second novel Whistle in the Dark, explores the effect teenage depression has on a whole family, especially when the depressed teenager may be keeping a terrible secret.
Sweat follows a fitness fanatic whose sense of control is tested when her coercive ex-boyfriend suddenly reappears.
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