Making The Best of Everything | Kit de Waal

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Merrion Square Park, Saturday 24th May

Best-selling author Kit de Waal is an outstanding observer of relationships, with an uncanny ability to create vivid characters. She discusses her hot-off-the-shelf new novel

The Best of Everything is a beautiful and moving exploration of the aftermath of loss and how love can slip into your life. Kit de Waal’s debut My Name is Leon was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. The Trick to Time was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Her memoir Without Warning and Only Sometimes was shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards. She edited the Common People anthology, and is co-founder of the Big Book Weekend festival.


Date:
Saturday 24th May
Time:
8.00pm
Price:
€10 - €12
Address:
Merrion Square Park, Merrion Square East, Dublin, Ireland

Google Map of Merrion Square Park, Merrion Square East, Dublin, Ireland

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