An Evening With Megan Hunter

We are thrilled to welcome Megan Hunter to Waterstones Nottingham to celebrate the release of her new novel, Days of Light.

 

'She marvels at the way a single day can unravel everything, like ribbon pulled from a present.'

Easter Sunday, 1938. Ivy is nineteen and ready for her life to finally begin. At Cressingdon, her sprawling, bohemian family and their friends gather for lunch and to await the arrival of a longed-for guest. Britain is on the cusp of war, but in the idyllic Sussex countryside anything feels possible.

It is a single, enchanted afternoon that ends in tragedy and will change Ivy’s life forever.

Chronicling six pivotal days across six decades, Days of Light moves through the Second World War and into the twentieth century on a radiant journey through a life lived in pursuit of love and in search of an answer.

Megan will discuss her new book before an audience Q&A and book signing.

Megan Hunter is a prizewinning novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. Her first novel, The End We Start From(2017), was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Books Are My Bag Awards, longlisted for the Aspen Words Prize, was aBarnes and Noble Discover Awards finalist and won theForward Reviews Editor’s Choice Award. It was adapted into amajor motion picture by Alice Birch, starring Jodie Comer and directed by Mahalia Belo. Her second novel, The Harpy(2020), was Indie Book of the Month; she is currently adapting it for television with Red Planet Pictures.

In 2024 her dramatic monologue Salt of the Earth premiered at Venice Film Festival. Megan’s other writing has appeared in the White Review, the TLS, Literary Hub, Vogue, Elle, BOMB and elsewhere. She lives near Cambridge.