Join Kit de Waal and Fran Littlewood at the Manchester Gliterary Lunch - a sparkling combination of good food, good books and good company. Perfect for client entertaining and meeting up with friends.
The Best of Everything Kit de Waal
The Author
Multi award-winningKit de Waalhasworked in criminal and family law, was a magistrate for several years and sits on adoption panels. My Name is Leonwas shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year and was adapted as a film for Radio2. Without Warning and Only Sometimes, a memoir, was a Radio 4 Book of the Week and shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. Kit is editor of the Common People anthology and co-founder of the Big Book Weekend Festival.
The Book
Paulettehad thefuture all mapped out: the wedding to Denton, the Caribbean honeymoon, the gingham quilt on the baby’s crib. Until one morning Denton’s friendGarfield tells herDenton won’t be coming aroundanymore, andthere won’t be time to say goodbye. Somehow Garfield finds his way into her bed, and sooner than anyone can believe there’sa baby. Suddenly giving her son, the best of everything is what gives Paulette’s life meaning.So why is it another little boy,Nellie, who’sbeing raised a few streets away, with no sign of a mum,keeps Paulette awake at night?
The Best of Everything is a novel about the love that can steal into our lives – in spite of the best laid plans.
Praise for Kit de Waal
A profoundly compassionate novel of devastating power Bernardine Evaristo, Booker Prize-Winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
The Favourite Fran Littlewood
The Author
Fran Littlewood is the author of Amazing Grace Adams, which was a New York Times bestseller and Today Show Read With Jenna pick, and has been published in 17 territories to date. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, University of London, and worked as a journalist, including a stint at the Times. She lives in London with her husband and their three daughters. The Favourite is her second novel.
The Book
Alex, Eva and Nancy. Three grown-up sisters; each wonderful and messy in their own individual ways. And loved equally by their parents, Vivienne and Patrick. Or so they thought . . . Until on their annual family holiday, Patrick accidentally lets slip that he has a favourite daughter – causing other long-buried secrets to come to light. Set over a single week, but examining the highs and lows that define a family over the decades, The Favourite is a story about rivalries and long-held resentments, about loss and grief and blame – and, above all, about love.
Praise for Fran Littlewood
Now again I read a book which is so FABULOUS I get queasy with jealousy. This is one such book. God I wish I had written it. Funny, dark, fascinating and UTTERLY convincing. Author, Marian Keyes
Join us for a sparkling combination of good food, good books and good company.
Gather over canapes and fizz before sitting down to a delicious lunch while two award winning writers talk about the inspiration behind their latest books. Treat your clients or catch up with likeminded friends or colleagues.
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