Tue 18 Jun 2024 , 19:30 – 20:30 Ipswich County Library £5.00
Join us for an author talk with lecturer, psychoanalyst and novelist Salley Vickers, as part of our DiscoveReads project and Ipswich 100, a celebration of Ipswich Library's centenary! Salley will be talking to us about her career so far and her book The Librarian, which is one of this year's featured DiscoveReads titles.
Tickets are £5.00 each. Price includes refreshments. This event includes an audience Q&A and book signing.
About The Librarian:
In 1958, Sylvia Blackwell, fresh from one of the new post-war Library Schools, takes up a job as children's librarian in a run down library in the market town of East Mole.
Her mission is to fire the enthusiasm of the children of East Mole for reading. But her love affair with the local married GP, and her befriending of his precious daughter, her neighbour's son and her landlady's neglected grandchild, ignite the prejudices of the town, threatening her job and the very existence of the library with dramatic consequences for them all.
The Librarian is a moving testament to the joy of reading and the power of books to change and inspire us all.
About Salley Vickers:
Salley Vickers was born in Liverpool, the child of communist parents. She grew up in Stoke-on-Trent, living in Barlastan Hall, where her father was warden of a W.E.A. college that taught adult education to Trades Union workers. She moved to London aged three and lived there for the remainder of her childhood.
She wrote her first novel, The Door Into Time, aged nine, thanks to an enterprising primary school teacher. The novel is lost but she believes it has influenced all her subsequent work and she regards her education at this state primary school as some of the most nourishing she has been lucky enough to receive. It is a source of great regret to her, that the current primary school curriculum is so narrow and so uncreative.
Her greatest love is poetry, which she writes badly, and her three grandchildren, whom she sees as often as they allow. She also likes music, especially opera and 60s/70s rock, walking, gardening and dancing. Her first ambition was to be a ballet dancer. One of her greatest pleasures is being able to take her granddaughter to the ballet.
She has worked as a teacher for children with special needs, for the now defunct ILEA, a tutor for the W.E.A. and for the Oxford Department of Continuing Education, a university lecturer in English, a psychoanalyst and she now writes and lectures fulltime.
About DiscoveReads:
DiscoveReads is our programme to help you find new and exciting reads and get you talking about books. With a selection of five great books recommended by readers, DiscoveReads is a unique way to take your reading to new places. All you need is your library card and an open mind!
Find out more about our DiscoveReads programme.
Tue 18 Jun 2024 , 19:30 – 20:30 Ipswich County Library £5.00
Join us for an author talk with lecturer, psychoanalyst and novelist Salley Vickers at Ipswich County library as part of our DiscoveReads programme and Ipswich 100.
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