Yiyun Li & Octavia Bright: Music Against the Night

Yiyun Li’s novel (4th Estate) takes as its protagonists two musicians – John Field, inventor of the nocturne, and Adelaide Percheron, pianoforte virtuoso – and tells their unlikely, epic, love story, in what Ann Patchett has described as ‘the most perfectly constructed, moving, and beautiful novel I've ever read’. Yiyun Li will be in conversation with Octavia Bright, author of (Canongate, 2023).

Please note: our events start promptly at 7 p.m., so please arrive in good time. next door will be open until 6.55 p.m. for wine, house cocktails and snacks.

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London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Pl, London, United Kingdom

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