Conversations at the Chapel – Tessa Hadley

Upstairs at the Chapel

Tuesday 24th May 2022, 7.30pm

In conversation with Alastair Laurence.

Fellow writers have raved about Tessa Hadley’s latest book Free Love. Marian Keyes said, “I loved this book!!!!!”  Colm Toibin commended it as “beautifully structured and brilliantly paced”.

So please come and hear Tessa talk about this and her other writing.

Other novels The Past andLate in the Day – and three collections of short stories. Tessa publishes short stories regularly in the New Yorker, and reviews for the Guardian and the London Review of Books; she was awarded a Windham Campbell prize for Fiction and the Hawthornden Prize in 2016, and the Edge Hill Prize in 2018.

Alastair Laurence, who is curating this series, is a freelance documentary film maker who lives near Abergavenny. In recent years Alastair has made films about The Battle of the Somme, a history of British Photography and the poets John Betjeman, Philip Larkin and TS Eliot.

This event conforms with Welsh Government guidelines with a risk assessment completed and reasonable measures taken.

PRE-TALK SUPPERS AVAILABLE DOWNSTAIRS AT THE CHAPEL KITCHEN. YOUR SEAT WILL BE RESERVED FOR THE EVENT UPSTAIRS. BOOKING ESSENTIAL 01873 736430

 

Tickets £10 available at The Art Shop and at the Chapel. Online booking fee £1