Description
We are delighted to announce an event for Sarah Moss and her extraordinary new novel Ripeness.
It is the 60s and, just out of school, Edith finds herself travelling to rural Italy. She has been sent by her mother with strict instructions: to see her sister, ballet dancer Lydia, through the final weeks of her pregnancy, help at the birth and then make a phone call which will seal this baby’s fate, and his mother’s. Decades later Edith is living a life of contentment and comfort in Ireland. When her best friend Maebh receives a call from an American man claiming to be her brother, Maebh must decide if she will meet him, and she asks Edith for help.
Ripeness is a sweeping, engrossing novel about familial love and the communities we create, about migration and new beginnings, and about what it is to have somewhere to belong.
Sarah Moss written several novels including the bestseller Summerwater and Ghost Wall, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize. She has also written two works of memoir, Names for the Sea, an account of her year living in Iceland, and My Good Bright Wolf.
Sarah Franklin guides the conversation. Sarah lectures in publishing at Oxford Brookes University and has written for the Guardian, Psychologies magazine, The Pool, the Sunday Express and the Seattle Times. Sarah is the founder and host of Short Stories Aloud, and a judge for the Costa Short Story Award. She is the author of the novels Shelter and How To Belong.
Ticket price includes a glass of wine or a soft drink.