About this Event
Join author Jennie Godfrey for a conversation about her best-selling debut novel, The List of Suspicious Things, now out in paperback. We love this beautifully-written novel: it's a compelling coming-of-age story, packed with vivid characters and full of heart.
Date: Tuesday, 28 January
Time: 7-8.30pm
Tickets: £7
Tickets can be purchased in the shop or here via Eventbrite (includes a booking fee).
Refreshments will be served.
Our Guest
Jennie Godfrey was raised in West Yorkshire and her debut novel,The List of Suspicious Things, is inspired by her childhood there in the 1970s. Jennie is from a mill-working family, but as the first of the generation born after the mills closed, she went to university and built a career in the corporate world. In 2020 she left and began to write. She is now a writer and part-time Waterstones bookseller and lives in the Somerset countryside.
About the book:
Yorkshire, 1979. Maggie Thatcher is prime minister, drainpipe jeans are in, and Miv is convinced that her dad wants to move their familyDown South.
Because of the murders.
Leaving Yorkshire and her best friend Sharon simply isn't an option, no matter the dangers lurking round their way; or the strangeness at home that started the day Miv's mum stopped talking.
Perhaps if she could solve the case of the disappearing women, they could stay after all?
So, Miv and Sharon decide to make a list: a list of all the suspicious people and things down their street. People they know. People they don't.
But their search for the truth reveals more secrets in their neighbourhood, within their families - and between each other - than they ever thought possible.
What if the real mystery Miv needs to solve is the one that lies much closer to home?
Praise for The List of Suspicious Things
‘Such a fresh and interesting voice. You'll cry and you won't be able to stop reading.' (Marian Keyes)
'Such a beautiful story about friendship, community and family and secrets and what’s going on underneath.' (Zoe Ball)
'Gripping and moving.' (The Guardian)
'To read it is to feel that little bit better about life.' (Elizabeth Day)
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Grove Bookshop, 10 The Grove, Ilkley, United Kingdom
GBP 8.30
