Join us for an exciting evening as we welcome acclaimed author Sarah Perry to Maldon’s United Reformed Church on Thursday, July 4th. In conversation with fellow author Kate Sawyer, Sarah will discuss her highly anticipated new novel, ‘Enlightenment,’ a story of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends.

Following the discussion, there will be an opportunity to purchase a copy of ‘Enlightenment,’ and have your book signed.

Tickets/books can be purchased online here or at the bookshop. 

Please note there is only disabled parking at the venue, the nearest car parks in Maldon are Butt Lane car park or the White Horse Lane car park. 

The event will start at 7pm, with doors opening at 6:30pm

*When purchasing a ticket, please select ‘collect from shop’ at the checkout – your ticket is your email confirmation.*

About Sarah Perry

Sarah Perry is the internationally best selling author of the novels Melmoth, The Essex Serpent, and After Me Comes the Flood, and the non-fiction Essex Girls. She is a winner of the Waterstone’s Book of the Year Awards and the British Book Awards, and has been nominated for major literary prizes including the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Folio Prize and the Costa Novel Award. Her essays have been widely published, and she has contributed to the Guardian, the New York Times, the Observer, and the London Review of Books. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has a PhD in Creative Writing, and has been a UNESCO City of Literature Writer in Residence in Prague, and a Writer in Residence at Gladstone’s Library and the Savoy Hotel in London. Her second novel, the No 1 bestseller The Essex Serpent, is currently being adapted for television, starring Claire Danes in the lead role.

About Kate Sawyer

Kate Sawyer worked as an actor and producer, and wrote several short films before turning her hand to fiction. She is the author of two novels, most recently the critically acclaimed, Waterstones Fiction Book of The Month, This Family. Her debut novel, The Stranding, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, won the East Anglian fiction prize, was adapted for BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime and is being developed for TV by Fremantle and Afua Hirsch’s production company Born In Me. When Kate isn’t writing, or talking to other authors about their writing practices for her podcast Novel Experience and as a chair for author events, she is busy producing the annual Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival.  After twenty years living in London, she recently returned to her native East Anglia, where she lives with her young daughter.

If you have any queries regarding this event, please do not hesitate to contact us at maldonbooksltd@gmail.com or 01621854968