Highfield Library & Family Centre

Join poet Rachel Bower as she unveils new poetry and contributes to a bespoke mural that has been created with the local women of Highfield, capturing traces of stories, objects and recipes that have been inherited or passed on.

Bestselling author Susan Elliot Wright will be talking about the mothers in her books, with particular reference to her most recent novel, The Flight of Cornelia Blackwood, but also touching on The Things We Never Said, The Secrets We Left Behind, and What She Lost. Susan’s novels explore various family relationships, but motherhood in all its complexity is a recurring [read more...]