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Join us for the February edition of Éire to Everywhere: Stories Without Borders, where we welcome the incredibly talented Wendy Erskine to discuss her new novel The Benefactors. Her first prose-length fiction is multi-narrated story that is glittering, dark, and witty at its core, just as any reader of Erskine would…
Join us for the February edition of Éire to Everywhere: Stories Without Borders, where we welcome the incredibly talented Wendy Erskine to discuss her new novel The Benefactors. Her first prose-length fiction is multi-narrated story that is glittering, dark, and witty at its core, just as any reader of Erskine would come to expect. A study in character and an exploration of class disparity.
A Q&A and book signing will follow the conversation, where guests will get the chance to speak to Wendy about her novel.
About the Book
Meet Frankie, Miriam and Bronagh: three very different women from Belfast, but all mothers to eighteen-year-old boys. Gorgeous Frankie, now married to a wealthy, older man, grew up in care. Miriam has recently lost her beloved husband Kahlil in ambiguous circumstances. Bronagh, the CEO of a children’s services charity, loves celebrity and prestige. When their sons are accused of sexually assaulting a friend, Misty Johnston, they’ll come together to protect their children, leveraging all the powers they possess. But on her side, Misty has the formidable matriarch, Nan D, and her father, taxi-driver Boogie: an alliance not so easily dismissed.
About the Author
Wendy Erskine was born and bred in Belfast, before travelling to Glasgow University to study. She is a former English teacher, and is best known for her two short story collections, Sweet Home and Dance Move.
The Benefactors is her first prose novel.
Endorsements
“So fresh, so sharp, so wry, so alive” Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days
“I miss it already . . . What a beautiful, hilarious blast of brilliance” Donal Ryan, author of Heart, Be at Peace
“A cast of characters so vividly drawn it feels like you’ve known them all your life” Colin Walsh, author of Kala
“There’s not a sentence I don’t believe, or a character I don’t feel something for . . . what a joy it is to read” Michael Magee, author of Close to Home
