About this Event
We are thrilled to welcome the award-winning Irish novelist, short story writer and playwright, Christine Dwyer Hickey to the bookshop, to celebrate the publication of her latest novel, OUR LONDON LIVES.
Join us on Tuesday 24 September, 7pm, when Christine will be reading from OUR LONDON LIVES, before being in conversation, answering questions from the audience and signing copies of her books.
Tickets are £6/ £20 (inc. a copy of the book) and complimentary drinks will be provided.
Tickets for this event are non-refundable, but if you can't make the event and would like to reserve a signed/dedicated copy of OUR LONDON LIVES, please email [email protected]
About OUR LONDON LIVES:
'Told with a wise and benevolentheart, this is a London novel that captures the living moment of the city across decades. Christine Dwyer Hickey is a national treasure.'
--- Paul Lynch, Booker Prize-winning author of PROPHET SONG
'Our London Lives is huge of heart and soaring of soul.'
--- Claire Kilroy, author of SOLDIER SAILOR
'Our London Lives is a profound love story that doesn't shirk from the fact that all love stories contain just as much darkness as they do light. Like Barbara Kingsolver, Hickey captures the pulse of the living moment. A superb book by one of Ireland's finest and most honest writers .' --- Colum McCann
An epic literary novel which follows two Irish characters over 40 years in London.
1979. In the vast and often unforgiving city of London, two Irish outsiders seeking refuge find one another: Milly, a teenage runaway, and Pip, a young boxer full of anger and potential who is beginning to drink it all away.
Over the decades their lives follow different paths, interweaving from time to time, often in one another’s sight, always on one another’s mind, yet rarely together.
Forty years on, Milly is clinging onto the only home she’s ever really known while Pip, haunted by T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, traipses the streets of London and wrestles with the life of the recovering alcoholic. And between them, perhaps uncrossable, lies the unspoken span of their lives.
Dark and brave, this epic novel offers a rich and moving portrait of an ever-changing city, and a profound inquiry into character, loneliness and the nature of love.
About CHRISTINE DWYER HICKEY:
Christine Dwyer Hickey is an award winning novelist and short story writer. Her novel The Cold Eye of Heavenwon the Irish Novel of the Year of the Year 2012, was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2011 and nominated for the IMPAC 2013 award. Last Train from Liguria was shortlisted for the Prix L'Européen de Littérature andTatty was chosen as one of the 50 Irish Books of the Decade as well as being nominated for The Orange Prize and shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards novel of the year 2004. Her first novel The Dancer was shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year.
She has won several short story awards and her first collection The House on Parkgate Street and other Dublin stories was published in 2013. Her first play, Snow Angels premiered at the Project Theatre Dublin in 2014 and the text of same is published in March 2015 (New Island Books). The Lives of Women is her seventh novel. She is a member of Aosdana.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The West Kirby Bookshop, 6 Grange Road, Birkenhead, United Kingdom
GBP 7.21 to GBP 22.38