Psychological thriller writer Sophie Hannah  talked about her brand new novel ‘Lasting Damage’

at Warwick Library on Wednesday 23rd February at 7pm as part of our ‘Meet The Author’ series.

Sophie gave a wonderfully entertaining talk to an audience of over 50 people, giving a reading from ‘Lasting Damage’, which has just been published, and then talking about her background, why she writes thrillers as well as poetry, how she plans her novels, her methods of working, and much else besides. Everyone enjoyed a thoroughly interesting evening, and if they weren’t fans of Sophie before they certainly are now! We all hope she comes back again soon….. 

 Sophie Hannah is the author of five internationally bestselling psychological thrillers –Little Face, Hurting Distance, The Point Of Recue, The Other Half Lives and A Room Swept White. Her novels are published in 20 countries, with more foreign rights deals under negotiation.  The Other Half Lives was shortlisted for the 2010 Independent Booksellers’ Book of the Year Award.Little Face and  Hurting Distance were both longlisted for the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, and Little Face was longlisted for the IMPAC Award. The Point Of Recue is currently being made for television, and will appear on ITV1 in 2011. Sophie has also published five collections of poetry.

‘Lasting Damage’ is sure to be a best-seller…….

It’s 1.15 a.m. Connie Bowskill should be asleep. Instead, she’s logging on to a property website in search of a particular house: 11 Bentley Grove, Cambridge.She knows it’s for sale; she saw the estate agent’s board in the front garden less than six hours ago. Soon Connie is clicking on the ‘Virtual Tour’ button, keen to see the inside of 11 Bentley Grove and put her mind at rest once and for all. She finds herself looking at a scene from a nightmare: in the living room, in the middle of the carpet, there’s a woman lying face down in a huge pool of blood.In shock, Connie wakes her husband Kit. But when Kit sits down at the computer to take a look, he sees no dead body, only a pristine beige carpet in a perfectly ordinary room …