Bestselling authors Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan in York next week

Explore York Libraries and Archives have joined together with Fox Lane Books to present an event with bestselling authors Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan.

Explore York Libraries and Archives have joined together with Fox Lane Books to present an event with bestselling authors Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan.

Jodi and Jennifer will be discussing Mad Honey their moving and powerful exploration of the secrets we keep and the risks we take in order to become ourselves at this event which will be chaired by author Joanne Harris.

Jodi and Jennifer are based in the USA and this is a rare opportunity for readers in York to meet two bestselling, ground-breaking authors in the company of one of the UK’s most successful authors.

Mad Honey is most compelling, challenging and contemporary novel you will read this year – and which will start conversations we need to have around authenticity, identity, and gender.

 Olivia fled her abusive marriage to return to her hometown and take over the family beekeeping business when her son Asher was six. Now, impossibly, her baby is six feet tall and in his last year of high school, a kind, good-looking, popular ice hockey star with a tiny sprite of a new girlfriend.
Lily also knows what it feels like to start over - when she and her mother relocated to New Hampshire it was all about a fresh start. She and Asher couldn't help falling for each other, and Lily feels happy for the first time. But can she trust him completely?
Then Olivia gets a phone call – Lily is dead, and Asher is arrested on a charge of murder. As the case against him unfolds, she realises he has hidden more than he's shared with her. And Olivia knows first-hand that the secrets we keep reflect the past we want to leave behind ­­– and that we rarely know the people we love well as we think we do.

 Date: 16 November

Time: 7-8pm

Venue: Tempest Anderson Hall, Yorkshire Museum

 Tickets: £20 or £25

Every ticket includes a SIGNED copy of Mad Honey (RRP £16.99)

The ticket price for this event includes a signed copy of Mad Honey (RRP £16.99) or you can book a double deal ticket which includes 2 seats at the event and one signed copy of Mad Honey.

https://MadHoney.eventbrite.co.uk

Jodi Picoult is the author of 25 novels, including My Sister’s Keeper, Nineteen Minutes and Small Great Things, with 40 million copies sold worldwide. Her last twelve books have debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, including her most recent, Wish You Were Here.  Five novels have been made into movies and Between the Lines (co-written with daughter Samantha van Leer) has been adapted as a musical. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction, the Alex Award from the YA Library Services Association, and the NH Literary Award for Outstanding Literary Merit. She is also the co-librettist for the musical Breathe, and the upcoming musical The Book Thief, which will open in the UK in September. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband.

Jennifer Finney Boylan is the author of numerous works of fiction and non fiction, including the seminal She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, which was the first bestselling work by a transgender American.  She is a human rights activist and a professor at Barnard College of Columbia University, and a 2022–2023 Fellow at Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She has frequently appeared in the US media including The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Today Show.  For many years she was the national co-chair of GLAAD as well as a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She lives in New York City and Belgrade Lakes, Maine, with her wife, Deedie. They have a son, Sean, and a daughter, Zai.

 Joanne Harris (OBE, FRSL) was born in Barnsley in 1964, of a French mother and an English father. She studied Modern and Mediaeval Languages at Cambridge and was a teacher for fifteen years, during which time she published three novels, including Chocolat (1999), which was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche.Since then, she has written 19 more novels, plus novellas, short stories, game scripts, the libretti for two short operas, several screenplays, a stage musical (with Howard Goodall) and three cookbooks. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022. She is a passionate advocate for authors’ rights, and is currently the Chair of the Society of Authors (SOA), and member of the Board of the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS).

 Fox Lane Books

Fox Lane Books is run by Kirstie Lount who began her bookselling career at Borders in York. She worked for Waterstones for 9 years as the Events Manager, running their extensive events programme and earning a reputation amongst the publishing industry as a professional and passionate organiser. Kirstie opened Fox Lane Books in 2019 and she delivers a well organised, professional and friendly service providing curated books and literature via pop-up bookshops at literary festivals, fairs and author events and to the wider community through her online shop.