Fri 20 Sept
|The Observer Building
Monique Roffey - Passiontide
The award winning author joins us to talk about her latest novel.
Time & Location
20 Sept 2024, 19:30 – 20:40
The Observer Building, 53 Cambridge Rd, Hastings TN34 1DT, UK
About The Event
Following her wonderful interview at our festival three years ago, we are very pleased to announce that Monique is returning to Hastings to talk about her new book, Passiontide.
Passiontide opens early one morning, at the close of St Colibri’s carnival, when a young female steel-pan player is found dead beneath a cannonball tree. It is a discovery that will transform the lives of everyone on this small island.
Monique will be talking to Sam Davey, founder of the Hastings Book Festival, about Passiontide which has been described as "a fiercely alive novel about women daring to imagine a different world".
The event will be opened by Karen Arthur - a broadcaster and artist living in Hastings. Her first book 'Grandmas Locs’ celebrates the beauty of Black and mixed race hair through the magical bond of a grandmother and her grandson, will be published in October 2024.
This session…