Past Event: Gaynor Arnold at the Henley Literature Festival
- Where
- Henley-on-Thames Town Hall - view on map
- When
- 4:30pm, 2nd October 2009
Gaynor Arnold’s Booker Prize-listed novel, Girl in a Blue Dress, based on the lives of Charles and Catherine Dickens, features another incarceration. Rejected by her husband after bearing ten children, Dorothea Gibson (aka Catherine Dickens) is forced to live in seclusion. Often described as Mrs Dickens’ revenge, this accomplished and
perceptive tale gives voice to one of history’s forgotten heroines.
Sarah Dunant set the first two of her immensely popular Italian Renaissance novels in a painter’s studio in Florence and a courtesan’s palace in Venice. With the publication of her third, Sacred Hearts, the scene shifts to a convent in Ferrara, where 16-year-old Serafina is bundled off to save her family the expense of a dowry. Dunant’s meticulous research, powerful imagination and painterly style make the story leap from the page … and her talk is as electrifying as her prose.
Sarah Dunant and Gaynor Arnold will be interviewed by Tanya Gold.
Tickets: £5, now on sale here
