Join member, Anni Swinburn, as she launches her first novel at Sheffield Plate. Hear about the literal journey that inspired the book and the journey to publication as we celebrate its arrival in the world. Your ticket includes a free glass of Prosecco (non-alcoholic option available).
Mother House is a story of adventure, obsession, mental illness and recovery, set in Sri Lanka and Calcutta and is inspired by Anni's own travels in the late seventies.
Read more about Anni and her journey.
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More about the book:
Marianne should be getting married, but instead she flees from her home city of Sheffield to travel overland on a budget bus to India.
On a beach in Kerala, she witnesses a tragedy and forms a bond with a charismatic French-Canadian. They meet up later in Sri Lanka, where Marianne is quickly captivated by him and begins to find the spiritual connection she has been longing for.Will their relationship flourish or flounder?Decades later, Sister Marie-Agnes prepares to leave the convent in Calcutta where she has lived for the previous eighteen years.She had arrived with a locked trunk and no memory of her past.As she delves into the trunk, can she come to terms with what she finds?
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