York-based writer Karen Powell will give a talk at Northallerton library next month.
The speaker is the highly-acclaimed author of The River Within and the Nero Award-nominated Fifteen Wild Decembers.
Karen grew up in Rochester, Kent, but now lives with her family in North Yorkshire.
Her first novel, The River Within, was published in 2020 after winning a Northern Writers Award.
It is set in a village on the North York Moors in the 1950s.
Through the tangled relationships that lead to and emerge from a tragic drowning, the story explores the restrictions and obligations of class and the changes that threaten an established way of life in the post-war years.
Karen most recent novel, Fifteen Wild Decembers, follows Emily Brontë and her siblings as they are torn from the wild moors of their family home in Yorkshire to venture into the world to earn a living, brewing a creative ferment in Emily that will burst forth and change the literary world.
Published last year, the novel was shortlisted for the inaugural Nero Book Award for Fiction.
Karen will talk about her novels and her writing experience in a Q&A at the library on Friday, January 24.
The event begins at 6.45pm.
Admission is free, but there is a suggested donation of £3. Booking is essential, as places are limited.
Karen’s novels can be borrowed from Northallerton library.
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