Name: Oh, Sugar – Book Launch
Start: 2024-10-29T18:30:00Z
End: 2024-10-29T20:00:00Z
Location: 84 Highbury Park

Oh, Sugar – Book Launch

Afsana Press

‘Oh, Sugar is at once a glamorous spy thriller and a complex exploration of maternal love, grief, and radical acceptance’

84 Highbury Park

Jane will read from her new novel, <a href="https://www.afsana-press.com/oh-sugar" title="https://www.afsana-press.com/oh-sugar" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">OH SUGAR</a>, her second book published by Afsana Press. With opportunity for questions by the public and a chat and drinks afterwards.She will be signing her books for you. <h3>When disgraced journalist Dolly Fontaine discovers that her mother, the seventies film star Gloria Fontaine, was a spy recruited by the British Intelligence Services to ensnare a ruthless Lusenkan dictator, past and present collide with dangerous consequences</h3> In the wake of a political scandal that shatters her high-flying career, journalist Dolly Fontaine seeks refuge at her childhood home, Genévrier, where her mysterious mother, the celebrated seventies film star, Gloria Fontaine, lived for decades. When Dolly discovers a dusty box of cassette tapes in the attic revealing Gloria’s most compelling, real-life role — a daring undercover mission as a British spy to her birth country of Lusenka — so begins a perilous journey involving diamonds, Cold War intrigue, and a merciless dictator. Can Gloria’s voice recordings, and an enigmatic, retired spook once known as Sunstar, help Dolly uncover the truth before a deadly adversary silences her forever? Oh, Sugar spans two generations, taking the reader from 21st-century Cornwall to a fictional 1970s dictatorship. Longlisted for the Santa Fé Writers' Project Literary Prize 2022 About the authorJane Labous is the author of three novels: Past Participle (Afsana Press, 2023); The Chameleon Girl (Farafina Books, 2022), and Oh, Sugar, published by Afsana Press in October 2024.Jane is also an award-winning journalist known for her frontline coverage of human rights, humanitarian and gender issues, always telling the powerful human stories behind the social and political headlines, with credits ranging from the BBC — including regular slots on BBC Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent — to the UN.​Jane’s <a href="https://www.janelabous.com/copy-of-about-jane" title="https://www.janelabous.com/copy-of-about-jane" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">awards</a> include the BBC Radio 4 and Royal Geographical Society Journey of a Lifetime Award; the Merck More than a Mother Media Recognition &amp; Film Award for Francophone African Countries; a European Journalism Centre Development Reporting Grant, and Best Documentary at the Southampton Film Festival for her documentary project, Angels. In 2024, she was shortlisted for an Amnesty Media Award for her work documenting the stories of child soldiers in Burkina Faso. Her fiction has been longlisted for the Bath Novel Prize and the Santa Fé Writers’ Project Literary Award.Jane is a devoted single parent, and lives with her daughter in Dorset.Jane's <a href="https://www.afsana-press.com/PastParticiple" title="https://www.afsana-press.com/PastParticiple" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">PAST PARTICIPLE</a> was also published by Afsana Press in 2023.

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