HOT OFF THE PRESS! TONIGHT I MET THE FABULOUS LIZ TRENOW AT EBF'S FIRST LIVE EVENT THIS YEAR

 

Essex Book Festival - The Secrets of the Lake: Thursday 1 July 2021 at Billericay Library, Essex

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Yes, tonight's socially-distanced and masked gathering at Billericay Library made a little Essex history in these times of covid. Most of the talks and walks that have taken place so far in the 2021 Essex Book Festival have been digital or in the open, so we were delighted to meet our superb guest novelist Liz Trenow in the flesh (so to speak).

Liz is the bestselling author of In Love and War and other novels linked as most are to her East Anglian roots and tonight we learnt of her latest title The Secrets of the Lake which is a gripping wartime tale inspired by a local legend of a scary dragon said to live in a supposedly bottomless lake on the Essex/Suffolk border.

Pat Gaudin, our Trustee this evening

In conversation with one of our popular EBF Trustees, Pat Gaudin, Liz gave her audience a fascinating glimpse of how she researched and created this latest storyline, linked as it is to her youth set in a small rural Suffolk village and featuring a dark secret hidden below the waters of a mysterious lake. Oooh - can't wait to read it. ISBN13: 9781529036619 Pan MacMillan - Pan Books.

'Masterful storytelling, immersive locations, and characters that inhabit your heart from the first page' - Gill Paul, author of The Secret Wife.