About this Event
Join us for a very special evening where we’ll be joined by the fabulous Deborah Frances-White and co-host Jess Fostekew for another instalment of the Guilty Feminist X Waterstones Book Club. Deborah and Jess will be joined by Kate Mosse to discuss her latest publication The Map of Bones, alongside their chosen classic Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys.
From Kate Mosse comes the final instalment of the sweeping Joubert Family Chronicles, which spans centuries as two descendants of the dynasty seek answers about the disappearance of a third, who vanished from the Cape of Good Hope in the early seventeenth century. A sweeping and epic story of adventure and hardship, injustice and triumph, The Map of Bones by Kate Mosse is the sequel to the No. 1 bestselling The Ghost Ship, and the fourth — and final — novel of The Joubert Family Chronicles.
A masterpiece of concision and emotional heft, Rhys' audacious prequel to Jane Eyre imagines the life of Bertha Rochester - the notorious 'madwoman in the attic.' Born into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness, and her husband into the arms of another novel's heroine. This classic study of betrayal, a seminal work of postcolonial literature, is Jean Rhys's brief, beautiful masterpiece.
Deborah Frances-White is the 2016 Writers’ Guild Award Winner for Best Radio Comedy for her hit BBC Radio 4 series Deborah Frances-White Rolls the Dice. She is an Edinburgh Fringe regular, a screenwriter and is hugely in demand for her corporate seminars. The Guilty Feminist is an award winning podcast, named by Apple as one of their Best Listens of 2019, names Best Lifestyle and Culture Podcast in 2019 at the Pod Bible Podcast Awards and awarded Gold by the British Podcast Awards in 2020.
Please note: book and ticket option includes a copy of either The Map of Bones (RRP £22) or Wide Sargasso Sea (RRP £7.99) available for collection on the night.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Waterstones Piccadilly, 203-206 Piccadilly, London, United Kingdom
GBP 10.00 to GBP 28.00