Our next event is an online event in partnership with Bookshop.org. Ann Patchett will be in conversation with Daisy Buchanan discussing her new book, These Precious Days on Monday 29th November at 7pm
Access to the event is free when you pre-order or buy a copy of These Precious Days from Rossiter Books or via our Bookshop.org page. The link to the event itself will be emailed to you on the day, 29 November. Orders placed via our Bookshop page will be delivered with free postage.
‘Any story that starts will also end.’ As a writer, Ann Patchett knows what the outcome of her fiction will be. Life, however, often takes turns we do not see coming. Patchett ponders this as she explores family, friendship, marriage, failure, success, and what it all means.
Ranging from the personal – her portrait of the three men she called her fathers; how a chance encounter with Tom Hanks led to one of the most important friendships of her life; how to answer when someone asks why you don’t have children – to the sublime – the unexpected influence of Snoopy; the importance of knitting; the pleasure to be found in children’s books – each essay transforms the particular into the universal, letting us all see our own worlds anew.
Illuminating, penetrating, funny and generous, These Precious Days is joyful time spent in the company of one of our greatest living authors.
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