Megan Hunter is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary British literary fiction. Her debut The End We Start From - now a major film starring Jodie Comer - was followed by the psychologically intense The Harpy. Now, with Days of Light, she turns her focus to the Bloomsbury Group with a novel that traces the life of one woman through six pivotal days across six decades, from the cusp of the Second World War to the present day.
In conversation with local journalist Catherine Larner, Megan discusses a body of work characterised by its compression, its imagery, and its refusal to look away from the hardest truths. An event for readers who care about literature at its most serious and most beautiful.
 
Format: Interview & Q&A
Themes: Fiction, Adults, Headliner, Climate Focus, LGBTQ+, History, Literary, Book Club
Access: Live Captioning
 
Megan Hunter  Books: Days of Light, The Harpy, The End We Start From
Megan Hunter is a prizewinning novelist, dramatist and screenwriter. Her first novel, The End We Start From (2017) was adapted into a major motion picture starring Jodie Comer. Her second novel, The Harpy (2020), was Indie Book of the Month; she is currently adapting it for television with Red Planet Pictures. In 2024 her dramatic monologue Salt of the Earth premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Her most recent novel is Days of Light. Megan Hunter lives near Cambridge
 
Catherine Larner
Catherine Larner is a journalist and presenter. She writes arts and lifestyle features and profiles for many national publications including the Guardian, Country Living and Woman's Weekly and regularly contributes to 'Suffolk' magazine. She hosts author talks at festivals and events throughout the area and co-hosted the BBC Radio Suffolk Book Club with Lesley Dolphin on the afternoon programme for more than 10 years. Her website and weekly blog of book news and reviews is at www.moreaboutbooks.com.