| Dear Readers,
We are delighted to announce our first event in October (there will be more to follow!).
We are thrilled to be welcoming French author, journalist and editor, Nolwenn Le Blevennec to the shop to discuss her brilliant debut novel, As the Eagle Flies, with the book’s translator, Madeleine Rogers.
The talk will be held at 7pm, on Tuesday 3rd October at Gloucester Road Books. Tickets and more info are available here.
Published for the first time in English by dynamic indie publisher, Pereine Press, As the Eagle Flies is a witty and fully charged novel from an outstanding writer. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to hear from both the writer and translator of this scintillating debut. It is always an honour, and a wonderful opportunity, to have both writer and translator at an event. Our talk with Alejandro Zambra and Megan McDowell was one of the highpoints of our year so far, and we are just as excited to talk to Nolwenn Le Blevennec and Medeleine Rogers.
This is the story of an affair, or two. The narrator of As the Eagle Flies has been with Igor for seven years, and has two children with him – when she meets Joseph. Before long, they are deeply entangled with each other and she must decide between the life she knows with Igor and this unpredictable, and potentially destructive, affair. She is willing to start again with Joseph, but at what cost? And, does he feel the same way? With a sharp wit and a refreshing honesty, Nolwenn Le Blevennec uses literature, psychology, and popular culture to get to the heart of questions about love, family and identity. This is a book about getting lost in other people, and the lengths we go to to find ourselves again.
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