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SUMMARY:Rowe Irvin and Gurnaik Johal in conversation with Kaye Mitchell
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DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to welcome Rowe Irvin and Gurnaik Johal to th
 e shop to discuss their stunning debut novels LIFE CYCLE OF A MOTH and S
 ARASWATI. The authors will be in conversation with Kaye Mitchell.\n\nDoo
 rs: 6.30pm\, starts: 6.45pm\n\nTickets are £4. Admission is free when pu
 rchasing a copy the book.\n\nAbout LIFE CYCLE OF A MOTH:\n\nMaya and Dau
 ghter live in complete isolation in a secluded woodland\, their days ali
 gned with the light and changing seasons\, a complex pattern of routine 
 and ritual. Daughter has never questioned the life her mother has chosen
  for them\; the life that has meant she's never met another soul\, or kn
 own anywhere except their forest home.\n\nBut one day\, when Daughter is
  almost sixteen\, a red-haired stranger steps into the confines of their
  territory. Where there was always two\, suddenly there are three - and 
 the carefully constructed world that Maya has built to keep her daughter
  safe may not survive it.\n\nAbout SARASWATI:\n\nCenturies ago\, the hol
 y river Saraswati flowed through what is now Punjab. Many dismiss this a
 s myth\, but when Satnam arrives in his ancestral village for his grandm
 other's funeral\, he finds water in the dried-up well behind her house. 
 The discovery sets in motion a contentious scheme to unearth the lost ri
 ver as an act of Hindu nationalist pride.\n\nThe river changes the cours
 e of Satnam's life\, and those of six others. As legends and histories r
 esurface\, the distant relatives - from a Canadian eco-saboteur to a Mau
 ritian pest exterminator to a Bollywood stunt double - are brought toget
 her in a rapidly changing India. Ambitious\, moving and brimming with fo
 lklore\, Saraswati is a tour de force from one of Britain's most feted y
 oung writers.\n\nAbout the authors:\n\nRowe Irvin’s writing has been pub
 lished by Prototype\, Dancing Bear Books\, the Oxford Review of Books an
 d the Bristol Poetry Institute. She recently released an artist’s book l
 imited edition of narrative poems in collaboration with the painter Geor
 g Wilson. She has been shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize and the
  Bath Short Story Award\, and longlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Writi
 ng Prize\, the Fish Anthology Poetry Prize and the Bath Flash Fiction Aw
 ard.\n\nGurnaik Johal is a writer from West London born in 1998. His 202
 2 collection We Move won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Tata Literat
 ure Live! Prize. Its opening story won the Galley Beggar Short Story Pri
 ze. Saraswati is his debut novel.\n\nIf you cannot make the event but wo
 uld like a dedicated copy of one of the books\, please email events.manc
 hester@blackwell.co.uk or call us on 0161 274 3331.\n\nOur event format 
 is usually a 45 minute discussion between the author and interviewer\, f
 ollowed by a chance for audience members to ask questions. There will be
  the opportunity to get your book signed/dedicated after the event. Even
 ts are a brilliant opportunity to discover new books\, meet authors and 
 likeminded readers and learn something new.
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LOCATION:Blackwells Book Store\, University Green\, 146 Oxford Road\, Man
 chester\, M13 9GP
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