Book Week Scotland 2023 – Zoe Strachan
Wednesday 15 November | 18:30-19:30
Zoe Strachan – Catch the Moments as They Fly
Book Week Scotland iscelebrating Scotland’s Stories and the talented people who write them.
Zoe Strachan, award winning author and Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow at Whiteinch Library. 14 Victoria Park Drive South, Whiteinch Glasgow G14 9RL discussing her new novel Catch the Moments as They Fly.
Zoe’s fourth novel, spanning the 1930s to the 1960s, is an assured portrait of a rapidly changing Scotland, vivid with humour, and hardship, and love. It tells the story of ambitious Rena Jarvie who is determined her family will escape their shameful past. When she moves to a new town and marries the charming and cosmopolitan Bobby Young, doors finally begin to open. But as Bobby already knows, some things cannot be run from.
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