Launch of Anna's new novel, All The Days I Did Not Live
Please come along to the online launch of Anna'a new book. It's a novella - much loved - it's her eleventh book and here's a little detail:
After the death of her steady, constraining husband, Catherine discovers that grief can be a liberation. With her adult children appalled by her sudden transformations, and a strangely familiar presence in the house urging her on, she begins to test the boundaries of who she might become.
A call arrives on her newly purchased phone – a widower, Alec, still dialling the number once owned by his dead wife. What follows is a transgressive, intoxicating relationship built on longing, lies and the hunger to feel alive.
All the Days I Did Not Live is a haunting exploration of loneliness, taboo and the dangerous, but delicious, magic of reinvention – where freedom comes at a cost and even the ghosts refuse to stay quiet…
Dr Anna Vaught is a writer, English teacher, Creative Writing teacher, mentor and workshop facilitator and occasional lecturer. She is also a campaigner, tub thumper, the creator of the Curae prize and now foundation for unpaid carers. She is currently working with Palestinian students so encourages a donation to MAP for this event. Anna is a fiction and non-fiction writer, with particular interests in trauma and the imagination. A year ago she was awarded a PhD in Creative Writing by Published Works and her research on magical realism and trauma - with an emphasis on developmental trauma, with which she has spent all her life dealing - is considered ground-breaking.
All The Days I Did Not Live is published by the multi-award-winning Renard Press. Anna is represented by Clare Coombes at Liverpool Literary Agency.
TW. Although Anna will select very carefully from the novella for readings, please be aware that the text/context are frank about death, sex and refer to but does not tackle directly the topic of trauma and inter-generational trauma, in terms of coercive control and predatory behaviour of a sexual nature.
