Event 27/11: Clare Clark introduces Adder Stone

£6.00

Clare Clark

Publisher: Wilton Square Books

ISBN 13: 978-1806770519

Join us for a fantastic evening with Women's Prize longlisted and award-winning writer, Clare Clark, to discuss her latest novel, Adder Stone: a historical fiction novel set between Wales and Liverpool that explores a family's splinter after they're evicted from their generational farm for a Liverpool reservoir project. Based on true events, Adder Stone is an exploration of personal identity and the possibilities and limits of love. How far will we go for our child or for our country? 

Date:
Friday 27th of November

Venue:
Bookmarked, 47 Henleaze Road, BS9 4JU

Time:
Doors at 18:30. Discussion at 19:00. Finish approx 20:00.

Tickets:
£6 ticket only
£17.99 ticket with Adder Stone (hardback)

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

Adder Stone

It is 1963 and in north Wales the Jones family are being forcibly ejected from the land they have farmed for generations. Their valley is to be drowned, turned into a reservoir for the people of Liverpool.

While her husband Dai is grief-stricken, Olwen Jones privately sees it as a blessing, an unforeseen chance to escape the narrow confines of the valley. But for her teenage son Emyr, Liverpool’s careless arrogance is proof that Wales will never be free to decide its own future until, like Ireland, it breaks the shackles of English imperialism.

Based on true events, Adder Stone is an exploration of personal identity and the possibilities and limits of love. How far will we go for our child or for our country? Who are we when we lose the places and the people that define us? And how much, in the end, is it possible to forgive?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Clare Clark is the author of seven critically acclaimed novels including The Great Stink and Savage Lands, both longlisted for the Women’s Prize. Her previous book, Trespass, exploring the murky world of undercover policing, was praised by the Mail on Sunday as ‘provocative, moving and timely’. Her books have been translated into seven languages.