Royal Society of Literature Event

Monday 22 November 2010, 7pm

Getting to grips with ghosts
Susan Hill, Sarah Waters
Chaired by Philip Hensher

Susan Hill wrote her first ghost story, The Woman in Black, over a six-week summer holiday nearly thirty years ago, and the play it inspired has been running in the West End since 1989. This autumn, she brings out The Small Hand, in which an antiquarian bookseller finds himself troubled by a phantom toddler.
Sarah Waters’s fifth novel, The Little Stranger (2009), is set in a haunted mansion in Warwickshire, just after the Second World War. Described as ‘gripping, confident, unnerving and supremely entertaining’, it was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In a conversation interspersed with readings from their work, they discuss the seduction of the supernatural.

This event will be held in the Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre, Courtauld Institute, in Somerset House.

There are a limited number of press tickets available for what promises to be a fascinating evening; please email me on this address if you would be interested in attending.

Best wishes,
Jonathan Purves

Royal Society of Literature
Somerset House
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London, WC2R 1LA
Tel: 020 7845 4676
Email: info@rslit.org
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