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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><br> <BR><div>> From: stuart.n.clarke@btinternet.com<br>> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 08:29:52 +0000<br>> Subject: MESSAGE FROM THE VWSGB<br>> <br>> FORWARDED<br>> <br>> <br>> The Bloomsbury Set: Book Club with Priya Parmar and Amanda Coe<br>> <br>> Interview by Frances Spalding<br>> <br>> Tuesday 24th March 2015<br>> <br>> Frances Spalding will be in conversation with Priya Parmar, author of a <br>> dazzling new portrait of Vanessa Bell and her sister Virginia Woolf, <br>> Vanessa and Her Sister, and Amanda Coe, the BAFTA Award-winning writer of <br>> Life in Squares, the BBC dramatization of the lives and loves of the <br>> revolutionary Bloomsbury Group, starring James Norton.<br>> <br>> Vanessa and Her Sister is about the relationship between Vanessa Bell and <br>> Virginia Woolf, a story of devastating betrayal, art and love. Set during <br>> the time when the Bloomsbury Set were young and largely unknown, Vanessa <br>> and Her Sister is a novel woven together by journal entries and letters <br>> that seem entirely real but are actually the fictional work of astonishing <br>> new talent, Priya Parmar.<br>> <br>> Woolf expert Frances Spalding interviews Priya Parmar and Amanda Coe about <br>> how they plumbed the depths of this famous group of friends to depict a <br>> riotous journey on screen and on the page. Both are tales of <br>> self-destruction, travels around Europe and life at the centre of this <br>> charmed circle of friends who ‘lived in squares, painted in circles and <br>> loved in triangles’. Join us for this very special (and truly Bloomsbury) <br>> Bloomsbury Book Club.<br>> <br>> ‘It is billed as fiction, but one of the many joys of Priyar Parmar’s <br>> Vanessa and Her Sister is that this brilliant epistolary novel reads as if <br>> this is a genuine and revelatory new take on Bloomsbury. The voice of <br>> Vanessa Bell rings true’<br>> Ion Trewin<br>> <br>> ‘Priya Parmar is a powerful new voice in historical fiction. This novel <br>> explores the anguished relationship between the Stephen sisters and <br>> provides a new view of the artistic, sensual Bloomsbury world, placing <br>> Vanessa Bell at the heart of the story’<br>> Philippa Gregory<br>> <br>> ‘Rarely do you encounter a woman who commands as much admiration as does <br>> the painter Vanessa Bell in Priya Parmar’s multilayered, subtly shaded <br>> novel, Vanessa and Her Sister … Parmar’s fabricated journal is an uncanny <br>> success. Its entries, plausible and graceful, are imbued with the same <br>> voice that can be found in letters by or about Vanessa … Parmar gives truth <br>> and definition to the character of a woman whose nature was as elusive as <br>> her influence was profound. She has caught the phantom’<br>> New York Times<br>> <br>> Priya Parmar<br>> A former dramaturg and freelance editor, Priya Parmar was educated at Mount <br>> Holyoke College, The University of Oxford and The University of Edinburgh. <br>> She is the author of one previous novel, Exit the Actress. Priya and her <br>> husband and their French bulldog Herbert divide their time between Hawaii <br>> and London.<br>> <br>> Amanda Coe<br>> Amanda Coe is the BAFTA award-winning writer of Life in Squares, the <br>> forthcoming BBC drama about the Bloomsbury Group. She has written <br>> extensively for television: her credits include creating the award-winning <br>> Channel 4 series As If and writing the feature Margot for BBC4, about <br>> Margot Fonteyn. Her adaptation of John Braine's Room At The Top won a BAFTA <br>> for best TV miniseries in 2013. What They Do in the Dark, her first novel, <br>> was published in 2011 by Virago and Norton. It was followed by Getting <br>> Colder in November 2014.<br>> <br>> Frances Spalding<br>> Frances Spalding is a biographer, art historian and critic, with a <br>> particular interest in 20th century British art. She has written <br>> extensively on Bloomsbury, having published a biography Of Vanessa Bell as <br>> well as books on Duncan Grant and Roger Fry. Her introduction to these <br>> friends, The Bloomsbury Group, is published in the National Portrait <br>> Gallery’s ‘Insights’ series, and in 2014 she guest curated this gallery’s <br>> exhibition on Virginia Woolf and wrote the accompanying book, Virginia <br>> Woolf: Art, Life and Vision.<br>> <br>> <br>> Ticket Details<br>> Book Club tickets are £20 including a copy of Vanessa and Her Sister posted <br>> to you in advance, or £10 without the book. Season membership costs £80. To <br>> join please email bloomsburyinstitute@bloomsbury.com.<br>> Date: Tuesday 24th March<br>> Time: Drinks at 6pm and talk at 6:30pm<br>> Place: Bloomsbury Publishing, 50 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP<br>> Tickets: £20 including a hardback book or £10 without the book<br>> Book online at www.bloomsburyinstitute.com<br>> About The Bloomsbury Institute<br>> In December 2011 Bloomsbury Publishing launched a new foray into literary <br>> events which are aimed directly at the reading public and hosted at its <br>> Georgian offices in Bedford Square, London, in the heart of Bloomsbury. The <br>> series of evening events began in January 2012 and are held at Bloomsbury <br>> Publishing, 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP.<br>> <br>> ‘A magnificent enterprise’ Lord Melvyn Bragg<br>> <br>> For further information please contact Claire Daly, on <br>> Claire.Daly@Bloomsbury.com or 0207 631 5717<br></div> </div></body>
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