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- Price
- £12
- Audience type
- Ages 16+
- Running time
- 6:30pm - 7:30pm
- Venue
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- Culture House Sunderland
Event description
County Durham writer Anna Barker joins us on Thursday 18 March to talk about her extraordinary new family memoir: Dipped in Ink.
Anna Barker will discuss the tangled web of family stories, secrets and half-truths she uncovered in researching her mother’s life story. Dipped in Ink weaves these threads together, connecting Anna’s life to that of her mother’s, and the women that came before them who navigated illegitimacy and poverty, grief, self-sacrifice and love in working-class communities in the North East of England.
Anna Barker is a writer of poetry and prose living in County Durham. She is the author of The Floating Island, Before I Knew Him, Rain Hare and Book of Crow.
- Book sales and signing by Featherbed Books.
About Dipped in Ink
Centred on the life of Anna’s mother, the best-selling Booker Prize-winning novelist, Dame Pat Barker, Dipped in Ink is a portrait of several generations of working-class womanhood throughout the 20th century.
About the author
Anna Barker is a novelist, poet, and short story writer. Writing as Anna Ralph, her first novel The Floating Island (Arrow, 2008) won a Betty Trask best debut award from the Society of Authors. Her second novel, Before I Knew Him (Arrow, 2009), was shortlisted for a Good Housekeeping Good Read award.
