An Evening with ... Lucie McKnight Hardy

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Join us in conversation with Lucie who grew up in West Wales and is a Welsh speaker and now lives in Hay-on-Wye. Her most recent book has been heralded as a ‘claustrophobic folk horror’ by Sunday Times Style About Lucie McKnight Hardy Lucie McKnight Hardy is the author of Water Shall Refuse Them, which was shortlisted for the Mslexia Novel Competition and long listed for the Caledonia Novel Award and the short story collection, Dead Relatives. Both were picked as Waterstones Welsh Book of the Month. About Night Babies Is the house haunted? Or is it her? Things were looking up for Astrid Aspden and her partner, Kit, until their house flooded. With Astrid’s first solo art exhibition just weeks away, her paintings are ruined and excitement has turned to despair. She is thrown a lifeline when her best friend Flora invites her to stay in a run-down chapel she and her partner, Sim, are renovating in the Brecon Beacons. As Astrid and Kit settle into their new surroundings to salvage her work, they soon learn about the unsettling history of the chapel and what lies beneath the nearby reservoir. As the weeks go by, tensions simmer between Astrid and Flora as sour memories flare up from their teenage past and deep wounds are laid bare from an ill-fated school trip to Florence.

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