An Evening with Local Author of This Family – Kate Sawyer

‘Intriguing, gripping, moving – this deserves to be HUGE.’
— MARIAN KEYES

‘Unfolds like a great piece of theatre… The more I read, the harder it became to put down.’
— BOBBY PALMER

Join us for an evening with the Author of This Family, Kate Sawyer.

Come along for a glass of wine and a special evening at Gainsborough’s House. Copies of the book will be available for the author to sign, specially discounted for the evening.

£12 a ticket

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Book bio

“It is my dearest wish, that after so long apart, I am able to bring this family together for my wedding day.”

Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and laugh and bicker in this house. Today she is getting married in this house, with all her family in attendance. The wedding celebrations have brought a fractured family together for the first time in years: there’s Phoebe and her husband Michael, children in tow. The young and sensitive Rosie, with her new partner. Irene, Mary’s ex-mother-in-law. Even Emma, Mary’s eldest, is back for the wedding – despite being at odds with everyone else.

Set over an English summer’s day but punctuated with memories from the past forty years of love and loss, hope and joy, heartbreak and grief; this is the story of a family. Told by a chorus of characters, it is an exploration of the small moments that bring us to where we are, the changes that are brought about by time, and what, despite everything, stays the same.

About Kate Sawyer

Kate Sawyer worked as an actor and theatre and events producer, before writing several short films and then turning her hand to fiction. Her debut novel, The Stranding, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, won the East Anglian fiction prize, was adapted for BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime and is being developed for TV by Fremantle and Afua Hirsch’s production company Born In Me. Her second novel This Family was published in 2023.

When Kate isn’t writing, or talking to other authors about their writing practices for her podcast Novel Experience, she is busy producing the annual Bury St Edmunds Literature Festival.

After twenty years living in London, she recently returned to her native East Anglia, where she lives with her young daughter.