Name: author talk: The Prentice-Boy by Ray Rumsby
Start: 2022-11-12T11:00:00Z
End: 2022-11-12T13:00:00Z
Location: October Books

author talk: The Prentice-Boy by Ray Rumsby

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Join Ray Rumsby in the shop to hear about his historical novel for our times - The Prentice-Boy

in the shop - 11am - author talk and book signing - free entryPlease register here via Eventbrite if you wish to attend so we know how many people to expect. Join Ray Rumsby in the shop to hear about his historical novel for our times - The Prentice-Boy In 1820, aquatint artist William Daniell of London hires Jesse Cloud, a homeless teenager, as his apprentice. But all is not as it seems. An eventful East Anglian tour impels both on their own inner journeys, exposing others’ betrayals and exploring their own possibilities. Faced with bankruptcy, starvation looms. The artist must learn how to see and his prentice must learn how to survive – while the truth shatters all.Set a year after Peterloo, this historical novel focuses particularly upon poverty and exploitation, and the limitations upon women in the early days of organised struggle for rightsFollowing a career as an English specialist in state education, former Southampton resident, Ray Rumsby is a published author, dramatist and bookshop campaigner! In The Prentice-Boy, the central characters themselves describe how this unusual partnership progresses, how both have their secrets, coming to show the frailty, doubts, and resilience of lives on the edge. Ray tells us that the strong social and feminist concerns in the story led him ‘to find unsettling parallels between society two centuries ago, and our situation now’.‘I was genuinely sorry to finish this book. It had me completely engaged... and I loved the clever surprise in the middle of it.’ Louis de BernièresPlease register here via Eventbrite if you wish to attend so we know how many people to expect. This is a free entry event, but if you&#x27;d like to sling October Books a donation, <a href="https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/octoberbooks" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">please do</a>.

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