Kit de Waal: The Best of Everything

Join one of the UK's favourite authors, Kit de Waal, to launch THE BEST OF EVERYTHING, her new novel about the love that can steal into our lives – in spite of the best laid plans.

Kit's new novel is officially launched in April but we are delighted to say our wonderful partner Kibworth Books will have advance copies for sale and signing after the event!

Paulette’s the kind of woman who likes the future all mapped out: the wedding to Denton, the Caribbean honeymoon, the gingham quilt on the baby’s crib. Until one morning Garfield, Denton’s friend, arrives at her door with the news that Denton won’t be coming around any more, that there won’t be time for her to say goodbye. Somehow Garfield finds his way into her bed, and sooner than anyone can believe there is a baby, and suddenly giving Bird, her son, the best of everything is what gives Paulette’s life meaning.

So why is it another little boy, Nellie, who keeps Paulette awake at night? Nellie who is being raised a few streets away, with no sign of a mum. Surely Paulette is the last person who should be getting tangled up in any of that?

Kit de Waal is the author of the novels MY NAME IS LEON (shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year,) THE TRICK TO TIME (longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction), a short story collection, SUPPORTING CAST, and a memoir, WITHOUT WARNING & ONLY SOMETIMES (a Radio 4 Book of the Week and shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the Irish Book Awards). She is also editor of the COMMON PEOPLE anthology, and co-founder of the Big Book Weekend festival. MY NAME IS LEON was adapted as a film for BBC Two. Professor  Kit de Waal is the Jean Humphreys Writer in Residence at the University of Leicester and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Kit will be conversation with Catherine Morley, Professor of American Studies at the University of Leicester and the Head of the School of Arts, Media and Communication.

Getting to us:

To travel to the university main campus, please find details (including parking) here. An interactive university campus map is also available here.

Refreshments:

Freeman's Kitchen & Bar is a cafe in the Freemen's Campus off the main square on which the Sir Bob Burgess Building is situated.

Accessibility:

The Sir Bob Burgess Building is fully accessible.