Gwendoline Riley in Conversation | New Writing North Book Club

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The New Writing North Book Club welcomes Gwendoline Riley to discuss our fourth read of the year: My Phantoms.

Join us for our latest Book Club event!We&#x27;ll be hosting writer Gwendoline Riley to talk about her novel My Phantoms. Readers will have a chance to hear about the thinking behind the book, the process of writing it, and have the opportunity to ask Gwendoline Riley any questions they may have. Gwendoline will be in conversation with New Writing North&#x27;s Chief Executive Claire Malcolm. This event will be held online via Zoom Webinar. Tickets are £5 (plus booking fee), or free to members of the New Writing North Book Club.New Writing North Book Club is presented to you in partnership with <a href="https://www.forumbooksshop.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Bound</a> in Whitley Bay. About the Book:Helen Grant is a mystery to her daughter. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong places; a twice-divorced mother-of-two now living alone surrounded by her memories, Helen (known to her acquaintances as ‘Hen’) has always haunted Bridget.Now, Bridget is an academic in her forties. She sees Helen once a year, and considers the problem to be contained. As she looks back on their tumultuous relationship – the performances and small deceptions – she tries to reckon with the cruelties inflicted on both sides. But when Helen makes it clear that she wants more, it seems an old struggle will have to be replayed.My Phantoms is a bold, heart-stopping portrayal of a failed familial bond, which brings humour, subtlety and new life to the difficult terrain of mothers and daughters.About the Author:Gwendoline Riley was born in London in 1979 and has been hailed as one of the most significant young British writers. She is is the author of First Love, which was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Literature, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Gordon Burn Prize, and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; Cold Water, Sick Notes, Joshua Spassky and Opposed Positions. She has also been awarded a Betty Trask Award and a Somerset Maugham Award, and has been shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. In 2018, the Times Literary Supplement named her as one of the twenty best British and Irish novelists working today.

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