{"id":1786,"date":"2020-01-21T13:31:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T13:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2020-07-10T08:38:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T08:38:30","slug":"mst-alumni-kiran-millwood-hargrave-and-daisy-johnson-in-conversation-blackwells-oxford-8th-feb-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1786","title":{"rendered":"MSt alumni Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Daisy Johnson in conversation, Blackwells, Oxford, 8th Feb 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave will be in conversation with fellow alumna Daisy Johnson at Blackwells in Oxford, 8th Feb 2020. They will be talking about Kiran’s new novel, The Mercies.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the announcement: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“‘A gripping novel inspired by a real-life witch hunt . . . Beautiful and chilling’ Madeline Miller, author of Circe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Christmas Eve, 1617, the sea around the remote Norwegian island of Vard\u00f8 is thrown into a reckless storm. As Maren Magnusdatter watches, forty fishermen, including her father and brother, are lost to the waves, the menfolk of Vard\u00f8 wiped out in an instant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the women must fend for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eighteen months later, a sinister figure arrives. Summoned from Scotland to take control of a place at the edge of the civilized world, Absalom Cornet knows what he needs to do to bring the women of Vard\u00f8 to heel. With him travels his young wife, Ursa. In Vard\u00f8, and in Maren, Ursa finds something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God and flooded with a mighty and terrible evil, one he must root out at all costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inspired by the real events of the Vard\u00f8 storm and the 1621 witch trials, Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s The Mercies<\/em> is a story about how suspicion can twist its way through a community, and a love that may prove as dangerous as it is powerful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kiran Millwood Hargrave<\/strong> is an award-winning poet, playwright, and novelist. Her bestselling works for children include The Girl of Ink & Stars<\/em>, and have won numerous awards including, the British Book Awards Children’s Book of the Year, and the Blackwell\u2019s Children\u2019s Book of the Year, and been shortlisted for prizes such as the Costa Children\u2019s Book Award and the Blue Peter Best Story Award. The Mercies<\/em> is her first novel for adults. Kiran lives by the river in Oxford, with her husband, artist Tom de Freston, and their rescue cat, Luna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daisy Johnson’s<\/strong> debut short-story collection, Fen<\/em>, was published in 2016. In 2018 she became the youngest author ever to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize with her debut novel Everything Under<\/em> which was also the Blackwell’s Book of the Year. She is the winner of the Harper’s Bazaar Short Story Prize, the A. M. Heath Prize and the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. She currently lives in Oxford by the river and once worked as a Bookseller at Blackwell’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a free event, but please do register if you plan on attending. Please be aware that this event will take place in the Philosophy Department, which is accessible by a small flight of stairs. Seating is unallocated. For more information, please call our Customer Service Department on 01865 333 623 or email events.oxford@blackwell.co.uk.”<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Booking and further information here. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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