JACQUELINE YALLOP
critically acclaimed author of OBEDIENCE and KISSING ALICE
will be giving a reading from her latest novel
MARLFORD
in the Parisot Library on Saturday 7th June at 10.30.
We are extremely lucky to have such an acclaimed author in our midst, and many of you will remember her very interesting talk two years’ ago when ‘Obedience’ was published. I have just finished her new novel Marlford which I loved, and without giving away too much of this beautiful and deep story, here is a description of the book:
‘Ellie Barton has spent her young life living in the dilapidated manor house with her elderly father. Her duty is to her aristocratic lineage, something of which she is often reminded by those few people around her. But Marlford, the local village founded by her grandfather, is in decay - subsidence from the old salt mines is destroying the buildings, the books in the memorial library are mouldering, and old loyalties and assumptions are shifting. When two idealistic young men decide to squat in the closed wing of the house, they show her a world much wider than Marlford, and Ellie begins to feel trapped beneath the unbearable weight of history and expectation’.
Jacqueline will give a talk and reading followed by questions and we will finish with aperitifs. Do put the date in your diaries.
Please forward this message to others who may be interested.
(Due to teaching commitments Jacqueline Yallop is unable to participate in this year’s Literary Festival due to be held in October).
Gina Connolly
Parisot Library
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