Forthcoming appearances:
29th October: I’ll be chairing Alice Vincent and Raymond Antrobus as they talk about hearing, sound and listening at the Canterbury Festival.
22nd & 23rd November: Excitingly, the Ryedale Festival has commissioned a Community Song Cycle based on Wintering! I’ll be appearing to discuss my book with Jeffry Boakye on 22nd November, and then I can’t wait to be there for the performance, led by Roderick Williams (baritone) and Ethan Loch (piano) on 23rd November.
I’m not sure there could have been a more apt time - at least for those of us on the upper decks of the Northern Hemisphere - to settle down and enjoy Lolly Willowes. Summer has packed its bags, autumn has landed, and so we turn to Sylvia Townsend Warner’s delicious novel about a woman who swaps a dutiful life in the city for a late-blazing existence in the country. If you missed my previous post about the book, you can read it here.
Below is a clip of mine and Rebecca Armstrong’s conversation about Lolly Willowes, plus the transcript. Paid Subscribers can find the full recording further down.
Thank you to everyone who’s taken part over the last few weeks - it has been a joy to reconnect with this incredible book.
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