Samantha Harvey
Tuesday 28th February 2012
The Bookshop, Friends Meeting House, York Street, Bath, BA1 1NG
8pm
Join us for an evening with Samantha Harvey, one of the most important new voices in British literary fiction right now.
Her first novel, The Wilderness, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009, longlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and won the 2009 AMI Literature Award and the Betty Trask Prize. She was recently named by The Culture Show as one of the 12 Best New British Novelists. In her new novel, All is Song, we follow Leonard Deppling as he returns to the capital from Scotland, where he has spent the past year nursing his dying father.
Set against the backdrop of growing national unrest, tabloid frenzies and an escalating fuel crisis, All Is Song is a novel about filial and moral duty, and about the choice of questioning above conforming. It is a work of remarkable perception, intensity and resonance from one of Britain’s most promising young writers.