Louisa Young in Conversation with Joanna Cannon

About this event

Join us for a very special evening with Louisa Young to celebrate the release of the sixth novel in the beloved Cazalet Chronicles. Louisa will be in conversation with Joanna Cannon.

The Golden Hours is the brilliant new instalment in the beloved Cazalet Chronicles, started by Elizabeth Jane Howard and now continued by bestselling author – and Elizabeth Jane Howard’s niece – Louisa Young.

It’s Christmas, 1962, and the Cazalet family are gathering to celebrate. With the family’s beloved Home Place long sold, Polly and Gerald have offered up their rambling stately pile, Fakenham Hall, to cousins, parents, siblings and children.

The old guard – Hugh, Edward, Rupert and Rachel – look on as the England they knew and understood fades from view. Cousins Polly, Louise and Clary, now all on the brink of turning forty, are struggling to balance the demands of midlife with their personal desires – however secret. And then there are the young – a new generation growing up in a society on the cusp of real change.

In Louisa Young’s spellbinding new novel, familiar faces will reappear, newcomers will be introduced, and the legacy of the Cazalets will continue on into the swinging sixties . . .

Louisa will talk about her new book before an audience Q&A and book signing.

Louisa Young is a writer and songwriter, a former journalist, a Londoner, and ‘a masterly storyteller’, according to The Washington Post. Her twelve novels include the award-winning My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You trilogy, which Elizabeth Jane Howard called ‘a triumph’. She has also written memoir – You Left Early, a True Story of Love and Alcohol; cultural history – The Book of the Heart; and biography – A Great Task of Happiness: The Life of Kathleen Scott.

Louisa’s work is published in thirty-two languages, and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

 Joanna Cannon’s first two novels, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep and Three Things about Elsie, were both Sunday Times bestsellers and Richard and Judy picks. She worked as a hospital doctor before specialising in psychiatry, and lives in the Peak District with her family and her dog.

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