Date: Thursday 31 March 2016
Time: 7pm-9pm
Venue: Waterstones Piccadilly, 203 – 206 Piccadilly, London W1J 9HD
Price: £5 + booking fee (redeemable against a copy of the book)
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Words of Colour Productions, in association with Waterstones Piccadilly, will be hosting what will be a fun, insightful and candid evening of conversation with award-winning author Yvvette Edwards at the pre-launch of her second book The Mother, a whole week before it’s official release date.
Yvvette Edwards’ debut novel, A Cupboard Full of Coats (Oneworld Publications), was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011, garnered multiple nominations, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Writers’ Guild Awards, the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award and the Waverton Good Read, and won the Kirkus Best Book of the Year Award.
Her second and eagerly anticipated book The Mother (Mantle (UK) and Amistad (US)) has been described as “stunning” and “masterful” by author Irenosen Okojie (Butterfly Fish) for its depiction of the harsh realities facing families who have lost children to knife crime.
Edwards will be interviewed by Joy Francis, journalist and executive director of Words of Colour Productions, about her unconventional writing journey, why it took 40 years for her to commit to a career as a novelist, the challenges of writing authentic female characters of colour and her love of editing.
She will also read from both A Cupboard Full of Coats and The Mother, take part in an audience Q&A and sign copies of her book
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Photography will take place at this event.
