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Book Launch: Paper Lanterns

Including conversation between Christine Coleman and Clarissa Dickson-Wright

Thursday 27 April, 6.45pm
FREE

Birmingham-based writer Christine Coleman launches her second novel Paper Lanterns at Ikon on Thursday 27 April with a reading and book signing plus conversation with her childhood friend, Clarissa Dickson-Wright.

Paper Lanterns tells the story of Anne who, after a phone call from her younger brother, travels to Hong Kong in search of the truth about their scandalous mother Vivienne. Here, she discovers a series of letters and journal entries which reveal a secret about her beloved grandmother’s early life that challenge her most deeply felt convictions. Ann must also face up to her own part in an event which took place just before her sixteenth birthday, and caused the break-up of the family.

“A vivid and absorbing tale of family secrets and illicit love, observed with the keen eye of a poet. You can almost smell and taste Hong Kong. Recommended for fans of Margaret Forster and Penelope Lively”
Linda Gillard, author of Star Gazing, short-listed for Romantic Novel of the Year 2009
 
Christine Coleman is a writer, a qualified teacher and works part time as manager of an Adult Literacy & Numeracy Programme in North Birmingham. She grew up in the Sussex countryside and gained a degree in English at Trinity College in Dublin. Her first novel The Dangerous Sports Euthanasia Society was published by Transita in 2005.
 
Clarissa Dickson Wright, enthusiastic supporter of the countryside, former barrister and much-published author, is well known to TV audiences for the series Clarissa and the Countryman and Two Fat Ladies. She and Christine have been friends since their boarding school days, supporting each other through thick and thin.

Places are free but should be reserved by emailing sara@birminghambookfestival.org or calling 0121 246 2792.

Organised in collaboration with the Birmingham Book Festival. wwwbirminghambookfestival.org