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"Florrie knows that love, the proper, deep, extraordinary kind – is not about you. Real love is about them, always – about the person who you love above all others, whose happiness you long for above all other things. With love, you want the best for them." - The Night in QuestionIt is a real pleasure for us to be welcoming author Susan Fletcher to Penarth for an afternoon discussing her latest novel The Night in Question, a story encompassing a joyful, brave, unconventional life, brimming with love and loss in all its forms. Join us for what is sure to be a superb fiction event, and for tea and cake, supplied by Lucy's Cakes and Bakes!
The Night in Question:
Florence Butterfield has lived an extraordinary life full of travel, passion and adventure. But, at eighty-seven, she suspects there are no more surprises to come her way. Then, one midsummer's night, something terrible happens - so strange and unexpected that Florrie is suspicious. Was this really an accident, or is she living alongside a would-be murderer?
The only clue is a magenta envelope, discarded earlier that day.
And Florrie - cheerfully independent but (as with so many women in her life space) often overlooked - is the only person determined to uncover the truth. As she turns detective, Florence finds herself looking back on her own life... and a long-buried secret, traced in faded scars across her knuckles, becomes ever harder to ignore.
Susan Fletcher was born in Birmingham and studied English Literature at the University of York. Whilst taking the MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, she began her first novel, Eve Green, which won the Whitbread First Novel Award (2004) and Betty Trask Prize (2005). Since then, Susan has written seven novels - whilst also supplementing her writing through various roles, including as a barperson, a cheesemonger and a warden for an archaeological excavation site near Hadrian's Wall. Most recently, she has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Worcester.
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Friday 24 May
3.00 pm (doors open 2.30 pm)
All Saints Church, Penarth
Tickets: £20.00 including tea and cake and a SIGNED hardback copy of The Night in Question (RRP £16.99) / £10.00 Event Only including tea and cake
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All Saints Penarth, Victoria Square,Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, United Kingdom
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