Sarah Perry: Enlightenment - Watch live online
Sat 1 Jun 2024 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM BST
Online, YouTube
Description
Essex Book Festival Launch Event
Multi award-winning and bestselling author, Festival Patron and University of Essex Chancellor, Sarah Perry, will be launching this year's festival with a talk on her highly anticipated new novel, Enlightenment. This very special opening event celebrates both the launch of the 25th edition of Essex Book Festival and the 60th anniversary of University of Essex. Sarah will be in conversation with Peter Donaldson, Chair of Essex Book Festival.
Watch live online via YouTube. Register your place to access the event link.
Tickets are also available to attend the event in-person which is taking place at Essex Business School at University of Essex. For more information and to book tickets to attend the in-person event visit essexbookfestival.org.uk/events.
Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
From the author of former Waterstones Book of the Year, The Essex Serpent, comes an intricately crafted exploration of love, religion and the supernatural, as two improbable best friends become obsessed with the ghost of a vanished nineteenth-century astronomer.