Date/Time
Date(s) - 30/06/2024
11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Location
Harvest House - The Palm Court Room
Categories
Tickets £8
An award-winning first novel about love and madness, inspired by the two daughters of artist Thomas Gainsborough, who spent their lives trying, and failing, to live up to the perfect image the world so admired in their portraits.
1759, Ipswich. Sisters Peggy and Molly Gainsborough are the best of friends. They spy on their father as he paints, they tear barefoot through the muddy fields that surround their home. But there is another reason they are inseparable: from a young age, Molly has had a tendency to fall into mental confusion, and Peggy knows instinctively that no one must find out.
As Peggy goes to greater lengths to protect her sister from the threat of an asylum, she finds herself falling in love. The discovery of a betrayal forces Peggy to question all she has done for Molly – and whether any one person can truly change the fate of another.
Emily Howes has worked as a storyteller, theatre maker, performer, writer and director in stage, television and radio. Her short stories have been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, the Bath Short Story Award, the New Scottish Writing Award and she won the Mslexia Novel Award 2021.
Photo by Katrina Campbell
Interviewer Catherine Larner
