EVENT 16/04: Siân Hughes introduces No Such Thing As Monday
Sian Hughes
ISBN 13: 9781917378130
Join us for a fantastic evening with Booker Prize longlisted author, Siân Hughes, who will be discussing her second novel, No Such Thing As Monday: a commercial and powerful tour de force, which is a brilliant follow-up to the 2023 Booker-longlisted Pearl.
Date:
Thursday 16th of April
Venue:
Max Minerva's, 47 Henleaze Road, BS9 4JU
Time:
Doors at 18:30. Discussion at 19:00. Finish approx 20:00.
Tickets:
£5.50 ticket only
£14.99 ticket with No Such Thing As Monday (hardback)
£1 Pay What You Can
(Please only choose the PWYC tickets if you need to, they are limited and intended for those who really need them.)
You don't need to bring your ticket with you, we will have a list of names on the door. Books will be available to buy on the night.
ABOUT THE BOOK
No Such Thing As Monday
Steffie spends her days working in a dry-cleaner’s, trying to scrub the world clean one garment at a time. But no matter how spotless the clothes, she can’t rid herself of the guilt and grime she feels inside. Haunted by what happened to her sister when they were children, large fragments of which she can’t fully remember, Steffie is stuck in a loop of self-destruction, defiance, and shame.
When her violent, bullying father dies suddenly, it sparks a reckoning that cracks open her past. What follows is an unexpectedly redemptive journey of a woman trying to piece herself together in a world that failed to make space for her.
Raw, exhilarating, and full of heart, No Such Thing As Monday confirms Siân Hughes as a masterful chronicler of life lived on the edge, and people at their most vulnerable.
"Like Pearl, my new novel, No Such Thing As Monday, was inspired in part by a medieval text written in my home county, but set this time in the Midlands where I lived in the 1980s and ’90s. Of course, I love my narrator, Steffie. I love that she takes me by surprise and makes me laugh. Although she does not see herself as loveable, I do, and I hope that readers will respond as kindly to her as they did to the narrator of Pearl."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Siân Hughes is a poet and novelist who lives in her home village of Tilston in South Cheshire, where her first novel, Pearl, is set. Pearl is a contemporary novel inspired by the medieval poem of grief and mourning by the same poet as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Pearl was published by Indigo Press in 2023 and long-listed for the Booker prize.
Before moving into fiction, Siân Hughes published poetry, with her first collection The Missing (Salt, 2008) winning the Seamus Heaney award containing the winning poem from the Arvon International Poetry prize in 2006.