Event: An Evening with Kate Sawyer
Date : Thursday 24th July | 7pm
Tickets: £5 or £20 (includes copy of ‘Getting Away’
Venue: Maldon Books
Nearest car park: White Horse Lane car park
Book tickets in store or online here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening-with-kate-sawyer-tickets-1358906268229?aff=oddtdtcreator
Come along to a special evening with author Kate Sawyer at our bookshop on Thursday 24th July!
Kate will be discussing her new novel, ‘Getting Away,’ to a live audience, and signing books afterwards.
We’ve so enjoyed working with Kate for numerous events at our bookshop, and we can’t wait to celebrate the publication of her new novel. We hope you’ll join us for an evening with an author we love.
Tickets can be purchased online or in store. All tickets include a glass of fizz or non-alcoholic beverage. If you’d like a signed copy of Kate’s book but can’t attend, do get in touch at maldonbooksltd@gmail.com
About Getting Away…
Margaret Smith is at the beach. It is a summer day unlike any other Margaret has ever known.
The Smith family have left the town where they live and work and go to school and come to a place where the sky is blue, the sand is white, and the sound of the sea surrounds them. An ordinary family discovering the joy of getting away for the first time. Over the course of the coming decades, they will be transformed through their holiday experiences, each new destination a backdrop as the family grows and changes, love stories begin and end — and secrets are revealed.
Coming this summer, Getting Away is a dazzlingly ambitious new novel from the author of Waterstones’ Fiction Book of the Month, This Family, and the Costa shortlisted The Stranding.
About Kate Sawyer…
Kate Sawyer worked as an actor and producer before writing several short films then turning her hand to fiction.
Her second novel This Family was a Waterstones Book Of The Month and Paperback of the Year. Her debut, The Stranding, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, won the East Anglian Book Award for fiction, was adapted for BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime and is being developed for the screen. Her third novel Getting Away will be released in July 2025 and has already been selected as a Bookseller Pick of The Month for July.
From 2022-20024 Kate produced and recorded 60+ episodes of her podcast Novel Experience, where she talks to other novelists about their writing practices and the experiences that led them to being published. She is a regular guest lecturer in creative writing at Suffolk University and Suffolk One and Abbeygate Sixth Form Colleges.
Kate is the programme curator and producer of the annual Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival, in the Suffolk town she grew up in and returned to after the birth of her daughter.
Photo credit: Sophie Davidson