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SUMMARY:Zadie Smith
DESCRIPTION:On September 16th there is a special event in partnership with Hurst Festival when Zadie Smith will be at Holy Trinity Church in Hurstpierpoint at 7.30pm talking about her recently published book Fraud. \nZadie Smith is one of the most distinctive\, exciting and widely admired novelists of her generation.  Twice shortlisted and once winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction\, shortlisted for the Booker Prize\, she has twice been named among Granta 20 Best Young British novelists. \nFraud is her first historical novel\, and in it she transports the reader to a Victorian England transfixed by the real-life trial of the Tichborne Claimant\, in which a Cockney butcher\, recently returned from Australia\, lays claim to the Tichborne baronetcy\, with his former slave Andrew Bogle as star witness. Watching the proceedings\, and with her own story to tell\, is Eliza Touchet – cousin\, housekeeper and perhaps more – to failing novelist William Harrison Ainsworth. \nFrom literary London to Jamaica’s sugar-cane plantations\, Zadie Smith weaves an enthralling story linking the rich and the poor\, the free and the enslaved and the comic and the tragic.\nWhat makes this the perfect title for a joint event are the references in the book to local places:  there’s a chapter entitled Cuckfield Park and in another chapter headed Hurstpierpoint\, West Sussex\, the heroine says how much she likes ‘its quiet tea room\, the bakery\, the fishmonger’s’. \nZadie will be in conversation with Peter Guttridge\, local Hurst resident.
URL:https://cuckfieldbookfest.co.uk/event/zadie-smith/
CATEGORIES:Fiction
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SUMMARY:Lottie Moggach and Louisa Treger
DESCRIPTION:Louisa Treger \nA Fatal Love\n\nLottie Moggach\nMrs Pearcey \nwith Jo Durrant \nRuth Ellis was the last woman to be hanged in Britain.  A Fatal Love is the gripping story of her life\, imagined by Louisa Treger\, as Ruth Ellis is awaiting trial for the murder of her lover. \nKitty Carrington\, assistant to Ruth’s trial lawyer\, is determined to ensure that Ruth receives a fair trial.  The two women must navigate secrets\, betrayal and a broken justice system as they try to take control of their own lives. \n‘Both thrilling and seductive\, and yet so sensitively written … it will break many hearts. Brava! What an achievement.’ Essie Fox. \nLouisa Treger has written four novels and contributes regularly to numerous publications. She is also deputy chair of the Oxford Literary Festival. \nCamden\, London\, in 1890.  London is a city of gaslight\, gossip and grisly headlines. Mrs Pearcey tells the story of Hannah\, a young journalist engaged to be married\, who becomes obsessed with her near-neighbour Mrs Pearcey\, accused of a scandalous murder. Unbeknown to her journalist fiancé\, Hannah begins to probe in secret\, discovering details that the investigators have failed to spot\, and realising that the woman bound for the gallows may not be as guilty as the press have branded her. \nIt’s also a brilliant portrait of tabloid journalism in Victorian London\, exploring how the appetite for true crime was just as insatiable as our own today. \nLottie Moggach is a novelist and journalist whose fiction combines psychological tension with sharp social observation. She has written for The Times and Financial Times. Her mother Deborah Moggach came to Cuckfield Book Festival in 2023 and entertained us with her book The Little Black Dress. \nLouisa and Lottie will be talking to Jo Durrant and discussing what drew them to writing about women accused of murder.
URL:https://cuckfieldbookfest.co.uk/event/lottie-moggach/
LOCATION:Queens Hall\, High Street\, Cuckfield\, RH17 5EL\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Fiction
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SUMMARY:Patrick Gale
DESCRIPTION:Patrick Gale\nLove Lane\nwith Tiffany Murray \nLove Lane is a brilliant new standalone novel featuring characters from Patrick’s Costa-shortlisted novel A Place Called Winter. \n1950s Northern England. Three generations of men\, two of women. When veteran Canadian wheat farmer\, Harry Cane is brutally obliged to sell up and sail home to an England transformed by two world wars\, his arrival triggers unwelcome self- examination for the family he abandoned\, and for whom he has never been more than a distant figure. \nFrom the rural plains of Canada to 1950s Liverpool and Yorkshire\, Love Lane is a searing portrayal of escape and entrapment\, and a powerful exploration of what home and family can really be. \nOne of our most highly regarded novelists\, Patrick will be in conversation with Tiffany Murray\, a Hay Festival Fiction Fellow and old friend of Patrick’s.
URL:https://cuckfieldbookfest.co.uk/event/miss-author/
LOCATION:Queens Hall\, High Street\, Cuckfield\, RH17 5EL\, United Kingdom
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