February 2024
An Evening with Howard Jacobson
Esteemed author Howard Jacobson joined us for our first Book Club event of the year, and it did not disappoint! Howard has had a compelling career having written 18 books and achieving accolades ranging from the Booker Prize to the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award.
Our audience were treated to a closer look at the makings of his latest novel What Will Survive of Us – a slice of life story which poignantly tells the tale of love arriving in mid-life, and how this relationship opens unexpected new worlds for his main characters.
Howard shared that his own experience of being a sentimental boy growing up, often at odds with the expectations of society, is what inspired him to now want to write about and unashamedly explore love in this new novel.
During the audience Q&A, Howard shared that his favourite part of living a creative life was relishing not knowing where the words he writes come from – how his writing is formed by the authors he has read, but also a “mystical other place” where all art comes from.
A wonderfully entertaining evening with a literary legend!