The moral lines we tread, the price of love and notions of consent
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Award-winning author Sofka Zinovieff talks about her novel, Putney, about the moral lines we tread, the price of love and notions of consent at Bloomsbury HQ on 9 July .
Watch this unique behind-the-scenes event for free online on Bloomsbury Publishing's Facebook page from 1pm on the day.
It is the 1970s and Ralph, an up-and-coming composer, is visiting Edmund Greenslay at his riverside home in Putney to discuss a collaboration. Through the house's colourful rooms and unruly garden flits nine-year-old Daphne – dark, teasing, slippery as mercury, more sprite than boy or girl. From the moment their worlds collide, Ralph is consumed by an obsession to make Daphne his.
But Ralph is twenty-five and Daphne is only a child, and even in the bohemian abandon of 1970s London their fast-burgeoning relationship must be kept a secret. It is not until years later that Daphne is forced to confront the truth of her own childhood – and an act of violence that has lain hidden for decades.
Putney is a bold, thought-provoking novel about the moral lines we tread, the stories we tell ourselves and the memories that play themselves out again and again, like snatches of song.
| Two lucky members will win a signed copy of Putney. To enter please email you answer to editor@putneysw15.com by noon on 2 July 2018 with Zinovieff as the subject. Q: Who was Sofka Zinovieff's father & what did he invent? Not a member? Register here before entering the competition. |
Putney will be published on 12th July 2018
June 13, 2018
