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Manchester Literature Festival

Gaynor Arnold

After Such Kindness

Saturday 13th October, 6.30pm

Portico Library

Tickets: £6/£4 concessions. Book on 0843 208 0500 or

Following her fictional treatment of Dickens’ marriage in Girl in a Blue Dress (longlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes), Gaynor Arnold now expertly reimagines the controversial relationship between the celebrated author Lewis Carroll and his young muse Alice Liddell in her new novel After Such Kindness. Join us in the atmospheric surroundings of the Portico Library as Arnold discusses Carroll’s idiosyncratic genius and her own rare ability to blend fiction and fact.

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