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SUMMARY:The Bride Stone
DESCRIPTION:Sally Gardner\, The Bride Stone\nIn partnership with Federation of Essex Women's Institutes. 'When women support each other incredible things happen.'\n\n1796. 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.\n\n \n\nThis event will include an audience Q&A and after the event there will be an opportunity to get your book signed by Sally.\nTuesday 24th June\, 7.00pm\nVenue: WI Centre\, Whitelands\, Terling Road\, Hatfield Peverel\, CM3 2AG\nTickets: £10 / £8 WI members and concessions (Students\, Under 27s and Unwaged)\nBox Office: essexbookfestival.org.uk or Mercury Theatre 01206 573948\n \n\n\n\n \nThe Bride Stone by Sally Gardner\n\n\nThe spellbinding new historical novel from multi-award-winning author Sally Gardner.\n\nIt 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.\n\nBut 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.\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n \nSally Gardner\n[caption id="attachment_10116" align="alignnone" width="225"] Photo of Sally Gardner credit Peter Arkley[/caption]\n\nSally 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.\n\nFind Sally online at sallygardner.co.uk\, or on Twitter @TheSallyGardner.\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n 
URL:http://35.176.91.154/event/the-bride-stone/
LOCATION:Whitelands Business Park\, Terling Road\, Hatfield Peverel\, Essex\, CM3 2AG\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Historical Fiction,ONLY A FEW TICKETS LEFT!
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