I'm delighted to be taking part in the blog tour to celebrate Cheltenham Literature today. Many thanks to Sofia Saghir from Midas PR for inviting me. I was meant to be reviewing Early Morning Riser by Katherine Heiny today but unfortunately, the book hasn't arrived yet. As one of The Sunday Times Must Reads, Katherine talked to Helen Davies via live link from her home in Maryland on 10th October. Her book looks wonderful and I look forward to reading and reviewing it in the future. In the meantime, here's the gorgeous front cover and the description.
Jane easily falls in love with Duncan: he's charming, good-natured, and handsome. He has also slept with nearly every woman in Boyne City, Michigan.
Jane sees Duncan's old girlfriends everywhere – at restaurants, at the grocery store, even three towns away. While she may be able to come to terms with dating the world's most prolific seducer of women, she wishes she didn't have to share him quite so widely. His ex-wife, Aggie, still has Duncan mow her lawn. And his coworker Jimmy comes and goes from Duncan's apartment at the most inopportune times. Jane wonders how the relationship is supposed to work with all these people in it. But any notion Jane has of love and marriage changes with one tragic accident. Now her life is permanently intertwined with Duncan's, Aggie's, and Jimmy's, and she knows she will never have Duncan to herself. But is it possible that a deeper kind of happiness is right in front of her eyes?
A novel that is alternately bittersweet and laugh-out-loud funny, Early Morning Riser is Katherine Heiny's most astonishingly wonderful work to date.
Early Morning Riser is published in the UK by Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins. It was published in hardback, ebook and audiobook on 15th April 2021, the paperback will be out on 31st March 2022. Purchasing links can be found here but please support independent bookshops if you can.
About the Author
Cheltenham Literature Festival is the world’s first literature festival, leading the way in celebrating the written and spoken word, presenting the best new voices in fiction and poetry alongside literary greats and high-profile speakers, while inspiring over 9,000 school children with a love of books through its Literature for Schools programme.
Cheltenham Literature Festival is part of Cheltenham Festivals – a charity delivering a pioneering year-round educational programme culminating in four internationally-acclaimed Jazz, Science, Music and Literature Festivals. Cheltenham Festivals creates experiences that bring joy, spark curiosity, connect communities and inspire change.
The Festival has an accompanying year-round programme of education and talent development outreach including its flagship Reading Teachers = Reading Pupils project which has rolled out nationally, enabling teachers and their pupils to rediscover the joy of reading. The other programmes include: the award-winning Beyond Words, a creative writing project working with vulnerable young people unable to access mainstream education in Gloucestershire, Words That Burn, a national human rights poetry project created in partnership with Amnesty International and Write Now, a unique mentoring, workshop and networking project that nurtures young people’s creative writing abilities.
Festival Theme: Read the World
2021 sees the launch of Read the World, a major new three-year theme for the Times and The Sunday Times Cheltenham Literature Festival.
Selecting the books that help us explore and understand the world and bringing together a cohort of internationally renowned speakers and thinkers, the Festival is your passport to a world of ideas. Bringing together world-leading names and fresh new voices we will be exploring the key issues of the day from a range of different perspectives and understanding more about cultural norms from around the globe.
As the world’s first-ever literature festival (est. 1949) we sit at the heart of a dynamic global network of book festivals, as well as benefitting from rich partnerships with universities, think tanks and a range of cultural partners across the globe Through these connections we will bring you one of our most diverse line-ups to date and continue to lead the way in producing world-class programmes that push the envelope of what literature festivals can do, and who they are for.
Building on the success of last year’s Festival, which combined digital events and live audiences, we will be beaming in talent from across the globe and reaching digital audiences across the world.
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