"A Mother, A Grandma...And Now There's A 'Queen Mum' In Paperback..."

Great!

We're looking forward to October.

Kate Long's coming to our Festival, and so is...** ( see end of Post )

Kate Long has excellent reviews.

Here's a handfull:

The Guardian: " extremely enjoyable...funny, perceptive" ( Bad Mothers Handbook)

The Independent:" blunt good humour and style" ( Swallowing Grandma)

And The Times on Queen Mum :" Long is not afraid to take on darker issues".

This is true.

In her books, we see those intriguing patterns families make over generations, we look at the changing lives of women , we look at Class ( in our "classless" society..)

And we look too at the tragic death of a child.

Kate is also a very agreeable lady. She's already visited our Festival; she joined a Writers Panel (Adele Geras, Jane McNulty, Margaret Murphy) for a lively afternoon re writing.

And another occassion, Kate kindly had a fun session with my writing group; we laughed a lot and talked a lot and certainly, we learned a lot.

And so, good news, Kate returns in October to run a creative writing session as part of the Festival!

Please See:

http://www.chester-literature-festival.org.com

**also coming to the Festival: Oliver James ( "Affluenza" ) Jenny Colgan, Rhabbi Lionel Blue and undoubtedly more......