Events

Wednesday 25th January 2012

Event: Gaby Pritchard Book Luanch: The Courtesan's Lover

Time: 5.15pm - 6.30pm

Location: Cloisters Chamber

More information: Click HERE to see the book cover

About the Author
I first thought I might like to be a novelist when I was a child, and my mother bought me a copy of a book called ‘The Far Distant Oxus’, written by two schoolgirls: Katharine Hull and Pamela Whitlock. (The book was re-issued by Fidra Books last year.) I was entranced by it, and it began a longing in me to write my own novel. Being only twelve, and the two authors being fourteen and fifteen, I reckoned then that I had at least two years in which to fulfil my ambition! But as my first novel hits the shelves, some thirty six years later, perhaps in hindsight I have to admit that that assessment was just a little optimistic …