Beth Lynch: The Cove – A Cornish Haunting

Join us as local Author, Beth Lynch comes to Oundle Festival of Literature for an interview style event. Melding themes of nature and loss into her literary memoirs, Beth joins us after the critical success of her first book, ‘Where the Hornbeam Grows’, and with her new book ‘The Cove – a Cornish Haunting’ garnering similarly effusive reviews.

Unfolding through a medium of salt and slate, the elemental indifference of Atlantic Cornwall, The Cove is a lyrical meditation on being a revenant, on haunting and being haunted. Through encounters with quarrymen, wartime women and a enigmatic archaeologist – along with JMW Turner, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Anthony Trollope, and Thomas and Emma Hardy – Lynch contemplates what happens when our deepest fears materialise, reflecting on mortality and the nuanced ways in which we take leave of our dead. She explores the profound impacts of change – in ourselves, in places and in the transformative dance between the two.

A mesmerising, elegiac mix of meditation and memoir – Saga Magazine

Beth Lynch is a gifted writer – Gardens Illustrated

Lynch writes lyrically about the natural world – Daily Mail

A beautiful memoir. I loved the literary and historical layerings to the narrative . . . a delightful sense of tension, even jeopardy in places, that was impressive – James Canton

General admission tickets are £9, concessions (Early Bird to January 20th, over 60s) are £8.

Tickets can be purchased in The Oundle Bookshop (cash only), or on our website: www.oundlefestivalofliterature.co.uk (head to the ‘What’s On’ page).