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June 24 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
  • Historical Fiction

The Bride Stone

Sally Gardner
Photo of Sally Gardner alongside image of book cover of The Bride Stone

Venue:

WI Centre, Whitelands, Terling Road
Hatfield Peverel, Essex CM3 2AG United Kingdom
Tickets:
£10
£8 concessions (Students, Under 27s, Unwaged and WI members)
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Sally Gardner, The Bride Stone

In partnership with Federation of Essex Women’s Institutes. ‘When women support each other incredible things happen.’

1796. An estate on the line. A marriage of convenience. A bride with a hidden past. The Bride Stone is a spell-binding new historical novel from multi-award-winning author Sally Gardner that opens with a ‘wife sale’ in Thetford and ends with a delicious twist.

 

This event will include an audience Q&A and after the event there will be an opportunity to get your book signed by Sally.

Tuesday 24th June, 7.00pm
Venue: WI Centre, Whitelands, Terling Road, Hatfield Peverel, CM3 2AG
Tickets: £10 / £8 WI members and concessions (Students, Under 27s and Unwaged)
Box Office: essexbookfestival.org.uk or Mercury Theatre 01206 573948

 


 

The Bride Stone by Sally Gardner

Book cover image of The Bride Stone

The spellbinding new historical novel from multi-award-winning author Sally Gardner.

It is 1796. Duval Harlington, recently released from a French prison, is on his way home. He must reach his late father’s estate Muchmore House before the following evening if he is to inherit it.

But the inheritance rests on another condition: he must also be married. He is at a market, hoping to buy a fast horse, when he hears about a wife sale. He takes his chance and makes an extravagant bid for young widow, Edmée Hyde. To his delight and dismay, the bid is accepted and they marry, only to find that he and Edmée are both hiding life-threatening secrets.

 

Order a copy of The Bride Stone by Sally Gardner from the Essex Book Festival online bookshop at bookshop.org

 


 

Sally Gardner

Photo of Sally Gardner

Photo of Sally Gardner credit Peter Arkley

Sally Gardner gained a first class degree at a leading London art college and became a successful theatre costume designer before illustrating and writing books. Her debut novel, I, Coriander won the Nestle Gold Award and she is also a Costa and Carnegie prize-winner. Her books have been translated all over the world and have sold over two million copies.

Find Sally online at sallygardner.co.uk, or on Twitter @TheSallyGardner.

 


 

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Venue

WI Centre, Whitelands
Terling Road
Hatfield Peverel, Essex CM3 2AG United Kingdom
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