I spent Friday with Natasha Farrant visiting schools. First we went to Woodstock Primary School where she answered questions from the Year 5 and 6 book groups I have been running this year - about writing in general and her own writing in particular. In the afternoon we went to Oxford High School where she gave a talk and workshop. After Iris is her latest book, just published by Faber, and is an account by Bluebell Gadsby in her own words and also through a video journal and filmscript of her family's ups and downs following the death of her twin. It is, above all, a novel of love and family and growing up - sad in places, but also very funny.
After Iris is excellent - do look out for it. We still have some signed copies in the shop...

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