Evening Talk by Carl Thompson

The Godalming-based novelist Jane White (1934–1985) is not a well-known figure today but in the late 1960s and 1970s her fiction was critically acclaimed and widely read.

In this talk, Dr Carl Thompson of the University of Surrey will introduce White’s life and career. He will give readings from her fiction, focussing especially on White’s eerie first novel, Quarry (1967), a book which has been described as Lord of the Flies transplanted to the Surrey countryside!

Delivered in partnership with the University of Surrey/SAHN (Surrey Arts and Humanities Network).

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