We welcome you to join us at The Wee Bookshop on Kempock Street, Gourock as we welcome Glasgow author - Dr Gillian Shirreffs.Gillian will be in the bookshop from 3.30pm-5pm so be sure to put a reminder in your calendars!
Some more about the author:
"A wee lassie from Campsie, Gillian grew up beneath the shadow of the Campsie Hills – with a wild imagination and a firm belief that everything around her was alive: creatures, fairies, even the air itself. Her 1970s childhood was electric with wonder, and stories scribbled in jotters.
That same sense of curiosity and enchantment runs through her writing today, as Gillian’s books invite us to embrace the quiet magic of noticing. She writes stories that connect – playful, tender, and deeply human – helping readers find joy in unlikely places, see the world a little differently, and leave with a sense of warmth and wonder."
A bit about Dr Gillian Shirreffs newest book, Elephant:
"One in two of us will get cancer in our lifetime, yet it so often remains the elephant in the room. In this unprecedented book, talented novelist, Gillian Shirreffs, collects and curates her own emails, WhatsApp messages, tweets, short stories, photographs and other found texts to tell the story of 800 days.
800 days in which she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer, had 22 infusions of chemotherapy, two surgeries, 15 sessions of radiotherapy, learned to live with the aftermath of treatment, and saw her debut novel, Brodie, published.
None of what is contained within Elephant was written with a book in mind and that is its power. Unvarnished yet beautiful, Elephant is a book that doesn’t realise it is a book, providing a unique insight into a writer’s life disrupted by illness. It offers a gamut of emotions; you will laugh, cry, think.
Shirreffs’ technique for surviving the most difficult days was to get through them five minutes at a time; this powerful testament to life, friendship and kindness, is one to be read at your own pace. A coffee table cancer book."
About Shirreffs' debut novel, Brodie:
"On a spring day in 1988, Sandra Galbraith runs her long, curious fingers over a bookshelf tightly packed with the titles of her favourite writer, Muriel Spark. She’s on a quest to find the perfect birthday gift for her niece, Violet, and plucks Brodie, a pristine, new copy of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, from a neat cluster of identikit books.
Brodie adores Violet and, over the next two years, hidden in plain sight, learns family secrets of betrayal and a double life. When Violet leaves for university, her brother kidnaps Brodie to give to his disinterested love interest. On the thirty-year journey that follows, Brodie passes through hands and lives and is witness to death, sex, and a wicked stepmother.
Throughout it all, Brodie’s longing to return to Violet never fades."
Find out more and purchase your book ahead of Gillians visit here: https://drgillianshirreffs.com/
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