{"id":5646,"date":"2024-03-01T15:32:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T15:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montylitfest.com\/?page_id=5646"},"modified":"2024-03-19T15:48:16","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T15:48:16","slug":"2024-sunday-11-00am-sian-hughes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/montylitfest.com\/?page_id=5646","title":{"rendered":"2024 Sunday – 11.00am Si\u00e2n Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Pearl with Si\u00e2n Hughes<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Date:\u00a0 Sunday 9th June 2024<\/strong><\/p>

Venue:\u00a0 Montgomery Town Hall<\/strong><\/p>

Time:\u00a0 11.00-11.45 am<\/strong><\/p>

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Si\u00e2n Hughes grew up in a small village in Cheshire, and every day she used to cycle past an old house that was to become the setting for her extraordinary debut novel, Pearl<\/em>.<\/p>

Pearl <\/em>tells the story of Marianne, eight years old when her mother goes missing and left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in that ramshackle house on the edge of a small village. She clings to the fragmented memories of her mother\u2019s love and trusts in a medieval poem called\u00a0Pearl<\/em>\u00a0to console her, but remains haunted by an unmarked gravestone in an abandoned chapel and the tidal pull of the river.<\/p>

Meet Si\u00e2n as we explore how the medieval poem, Pearl, <\/em>and her childhood village became the inspiration for such a wonderful evocation of late 20th-century rural life and the isolation and trauma of loss and grief. We\u2019ll also be talking about her work as a poet and what it feels like for your debut novel to be longlisted for the Booker Prize.<\/p>

Si\u00e2n Hughes <\/strong>is a Welsh writer and poet who grew up in a small village in Cheshire where her debut novel, Pearl, <\/em>is set.\u00a0Her first collection of poetry\u00a0The Missing\u00a0<\/em>(Salt, 2009) was a Poetry Society Recommendation, longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, shortlisted for the Felix Dennis and the Aldeburgh prizes, and won the Seamus Heaney Award. The collection included the elegy The Send-Off<\/em> which won the 2006 Arvon International Poetry Competition.\u00a0Pearl<\/em>\u00a0was longlisted for The Booker Prize 2023. Si\u00e2n lives in Cheshire with her son, where she owns and runs the independent bookshop Magpie Books.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0 Pearl with Si\u00e2n Hughes Date:\u00a0 Sunday 9th June 2024 Venue:\u00a0 Montgomery Town Hall Time:\u00a0 11.00-11.45 am Tickets:\u00a0 \u00a39.00 Si\u00e2n Hughes grew up in a small village in Cheshire, and every day she used to cycle past an old house that was to become the setting for her extraordinary debut novel, Pearl. Pearl tells the …<\/p>\n

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