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Edinburgh December 2023 Event - Both Featured Books
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A Bird in Winter by Louise Doughty & The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok
Louise Doughty's novels include the bestseller Apple Tree Yard which was adapted for BBC One, Whatever You Love, nominated for the Costa Novel Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction, Platform Seven, filmed for a major new ITV series and Black Water, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. A Bird in Winter is her electrifying new novel. Bird is a woman on the run but who is on her trail and who can she trust. Is her greatest fear that she will be hunted down, or that she will never be found?
'Doughty is a brilliant storyteller who knows how to build suspense to breaking point.' The Times
Jean Kwok is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of Girl in Translation, Mambo in Chinatown and Searching for Sylvie Lee, which was a Read with Jenna Today Show Pick. Her work has been published in twenty countries and is taught in universities, colleges, and high schools across the world. The Leftover Woman is her latest novel. Jasmine Yang thought her daughter was dead at birth. But five years after she was taken from her arms, she learns that her controlling husband sent the baby to America to be adopted, a casualty of China's One Child Policy. Fleeing her rural Chinese village, Jasmine arrives in New York City with nothing except a desperate need to find her daughter.
‘A hugely atmospheric and suspenseful mystery' Lucy Foley, author of The Hunting Party
Pre-order both featured books by Monday 20th November, 5pm and we will place them on your table at the Edinburgh Gliterary Lunch in an elegant Gliterary Lunch gift bag. Orders placed after this date will not be eligible for the Gliterary discount and may be subject to availablity.
NB These books are for collection at the event only.
RRP £31.98, saving £8.98.
