An Afternoon with The Reader with special guest Liz Berry

22 Nov 2024

Wallasey Town Hall

Join The Reader at Wallasey Central Library for an afternoon of Shared Reading where we’ll be focusing on award-winning poet, Liz Berry’s novel-in-verse ‘The Home Child’.

With her debut collection named poetry book of the year by The Guardian, Liz Berry’s poems are a firm favourite with Shared Reading groups. She will be joining us live to read from and talk about ‘The Home Child’, a book length poem inspired by the true story of her great aunt as a child far from home. In 1908, Eliza Showell, twelve years old and newly orphaned, boards a ship that will carry her from the slums of the Black Country to rural Nova Scotia.

Copies of the book will be available to purchase with the opportunity to have them signed.