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[annemarie bantzinger]

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