Feb
16
5:30pm
MAGPIE | Eve Ainsworth in conversation with Katherine Woodfine
By Scholastic
Join us for the virtual launch of Eve Ainsworth's new children's novel, MAGPIE. Eve will be interviewed by author & journalist Katherine Woodfine.
About MAGPIE:
It has been a long time since Alice has felt safe. Because of him. Ross.
But now she, Mum and her little brother Henry have finally moved faraway, where Ross will never find them. It's a fresh start, Mum says. This time, she is never going back.Slowly Alice starts to build a life for herself, at a new school with new friends. But she can't escape the feeling she is being watched. That he might be lurking, waiting to ruin everything again. That Mum might be about to break her promise. That, just when Alice is starting to feel safe,everything will be taken away from her.
A story about healing, home and new beginnings from acclaimed author Eve Ainsworth.
About Eve Ainsworth:
Eve Ainsworth is a public speaker, creative workshop coordinator and award-winning author who draws from her extensive work with teenagers managing emotional and behavioural issues to write authentic, honest and real novels for young people. Eve lives in West Sussex with her husband and two children
About Katherine Woodfine:
A much-loved children’s author and former Waterstones bookseller, Katherine Woodfine published her first children’s book, The Clockwork Sparrow, in 2015. The novel was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and became the first in the historical children’s detective series the Sinclair Mysteries. Other novels in the series are The Jewelled Moth, The Painted Dragon and The Midnight Peacock. The heroines of the Sinclair Mysteries continue their adventures in Edwardian England in the new series Taylor & Rose Secret Agents, which launched in 2018 with Peril in Paris.
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