Claire Lynch - A Family Matter | Wednesday 10 September, 6.30pm

Every page sings out with love, pain, and honesty. - Emilie Pine, author of Ruth & Pen

We are hugely looking forward to an evening with novelist Claire Lynch talking about her beautifully heart-breaking yet hopeful debut that will captivate, enrage, and uplift readers. Based on research into the real-life experiences of lesbian mothers in the 1980s, this sharp, unputdownable book shines a light on a little-discussed recent slice of LGBTQ history.

PRE-ORDER your copy of A Family Matter here.

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It’s 2022, and Heron, an old man of quiet habits, has just had the sort of visit to the doctor that turns a life upside down. Sharing the diagnosis with Maggie, his only daughter, seems impossible. Heron just can’t find the words to tell her about it, or any of the other things he’s been protecting her from for so long.

It’s 1982, and Dawn is a young wife and mother penned in by the expectations of her time and place. Then Hazel comes into her life like a torch in the dark. It’s the kind of connection that’s impossible to resist, and suddenly Dawn’s world is more joyful, and more complicated, than she ever expected. But Dawn has responsibilities, she has commitments: Dawn has Maggie.

A Family Matter is an immersive and tender debut, at once heart-breaking and hopeful, that asks how we might heal from the wounds of the past, and what we might learn from them.