About this Event
As part of Mental Health Awareness Week, Hammersmith Library will host authors Susan Jordan and Kelly Davis for readings and a Q&A on their works The Box and Portrait of My Father as a Snail. Both will read from and sign copies of their books, and discuss how their works came to be written. Whilst the authors can signpost to services if requested, the event is not intended to address audience members’ personal issues.
The Box by Susan Jordan is a beautifully observed novel about loss and its aftermath, full of intelligence and subtlety. Readers have found it engrossing, moving, perceptive and skilfully written. The novel depicts their grief and pain without drawing us into a miasma of darkness, and the ending leaves room for hope. Susan Jordan is a published poet and The Box shows that she is also a powerful novelist.
Kelly Davis works as a freelance editor and helps run a refugee support group. Her forthcoming collection, Portrait of My Father as a Snail (Palewell Press, 2026), explores her relationship with her reclusive father. While focusing on a particular relationship, they examine universal experiences both the darkness of loss, loneliness and old age, and the light of empathy, understanding and compassion.
Palewell Press is an independent publisher in South West London of books on Human Rights, Environment and Lost Wellbeing.
palwellpress.co.uk
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Hammersmith Library, Hammersmith Library, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
