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Wednesday 6th December at 6.30pm.
We are delighted that local author Shelley Day will join us at St Vincent’s Chapel to launch her new novel,Paris Pages.Shelley will be in conversation with award-winningauthor Angela Jackson.
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AboutParis Pages
A short novelin one hundred fragments. Three characters, one city, and the power of art will change them all.Claras done with psychotherapy and wants to be a biographer. Sadies a photographer whose work with traumatised migrants has taken its toll. Now she has ethical dilemmas about the value of art and is suffering creative block. Their lives intertwine with the enigmatic presence of Lszl who personifies the very essence of creativity.In 100 fragments the lyrical prose charts the shifting balances within and between the characters.Will Clara finally give in to her own limitations? Will Sadie rediscover her creativity? No-one can undo the past, but how often will they repeat the same mistakes?And Lszl? He alone seems to understand the complexities of human connection, and the indelible ways creativity shapes and transforms us.
Clara, Sadie, Lszl, Paris:When a lost psychotherapist meets a traumatised artist, who rescues whom?
About Shelley Day
Shelley Day is a British writerbasedin Parisand Edinburgh.Her debut novelThe Confession of Stella Moonwon the Andrea Badenoch Prize. Herdebutshort story collectionWhat are you likewon the Edge Hill Prize, awarded for the finest short story collection published in English. Shelley worked as a lawyer and later as alecturer and research professorin Londonbefore settling down to write fiction.PARIS PAGESis her second novel.
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