Wednesday 5th February, 6.30pm
Chepstow Books & Gifts
Book launch in the book shop with local authors Carolyn Lewis and Alan Bilton to celebrate the publication of their new books "Time, Again" and "At Dawn, Two Nightingales."
Sensitively observed and poignantly written, Time, Again explores the eternal conflict between youth and age, parents and children, enduring ambition and the passing of time with both wit and empathy. Has Elizabeth been a good mother? Or did she sacrifice her family in the name of success? Time, Again offers no easy answers but thoughtfully examines the choices and challenges faced by all women in all stages of their lives.
‘How we age and the concerns of who we will become as the years slip by, is a central concern of this novel and touches every one of us. It’s a real joy to confront such genuine characters who we get to know rapidly through empathy and realism. A genuinely human story, beautifully written.’
Dr. Peter Nicholls Associate Professor, Senior Teaching Fellow, Bristol University. Author of Beginning to See.
A comic opera in novel form - part quest, part pantomime, part unexpected ghost story, At Dawn, Two Nightingales is both playful and heartbreaking, upending the conventions of the historical novel at every turn.
The land of Bohemia in the Eighteenth Century. At Dawn, Two Nightingales is rumoured to be the most dangerous poem in the world, its haunted verses said to be invested with mysterious, supernatural powers. The impoverished Count Mitrovsky believes that within the enchanted stanzas lies the key to his beautiful neighbour Mařenka's heart, but other parties are searching for the poem too - sinister censors, dangerous criminals, bandits and brigands of all stripes.
A richly comic and darkly disturbing story of unrequited love, fantastical adventure and the quest for a mysterious poem, masterfully delivered in gloriously luscious prose - Carole Hailey, The Silence Project