Bobby Palmer in conversation with Kate Sawyer
About this Event
Join us at Maldon Books for an evening with Bobby Palmer and Kate Sawyer.
Both authors will be discussing Bobby Palmer's new novel, Main Characters. The discussion will be followed by a book signing, and both authors' books will be available to purchase at the event.
Each ticket includes a glass of fizz or non-alcoholic drink.
About Main Characters
This is a love story, told by everyone but the main characters. -- Clara and Seb are about to fall in love.
They don't know it yet. But everybody else does. When Clara and Seb meet in a quiet corner of London, it's the start of something.
She wants to be a director. He's an actor, unsure what he wants from life. Their connection is magnetic.
Everyone can see that falling in love looks something like this. But when Clara casts Seb in the film that will make her name, what should be the happiest time of their lives ends with a gut-wrenching betrayal. Some love stories are bigger than just two people.
This one is told through the eyes of friends, flatmates, exes and strangers who see all the sides of Seb and Clara, from their first date to the moment they fell apart. Everyone has their version of events. But only Clara and Seb can decide how their story ends...
About Bobby Palmer
Bobby Palmer is both an author and journalist. His critically acclaimed debut novel, Isaac and the Egg, was a Waterstones Paperback of the Year in 2022; his second novel Small Hours was published in 2024. Bobby cohosts the podcast Book Chat with Pandora Sykes and his writing has appeared in GQ, Esquire, Men's Health, Cosmopolitan amongst others. He lives with his family in Sussex.
About Kate Sawyer
Kate Sawyer worked as an actor and producer before writing several short films then turning her hand to fiction.
Her second novel This Family was a Waterstones Book Of The Month and Paperback of the Year. Her debut, The Stranding, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, won the East Anglian Book Award for fiction, was adapted for BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime and is being developed for the screen. Her third novel Getting Away will be released in July 2025 and has already been selected as a Bookseller Pick of The Month for July.
From 2022-20024 Kate produced and recorded 60+ episodes of her podcast Novel Experience, where she talks to other novelists about their writing practices and the experiences that led them to being published. She is a regular guest lecturer in creative writing at Suffolk University and Suffolk One and Abbeygate Sixth Form Colleges.
Kate is the programme curator and producer of the annual Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival, in the Suffolk town she grew up in and returned to after the birth of her daughter.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 5.00 to GBP 22.50
