In the week when I'm due to speak about The Fifties Mystique at the Fowey Literary
Festival - on Thursday 9 May , at 11.45 - I've just received the
perversely timed information that the print edition has sold out. Luckily the e-book edition is now available - though somebody has yet to solve the
technical problem of providing an author's autograph for an electronic book - and another print edition should be available quite soon.
If you're anywhere within reach of Fowey this week and
next, the Lit Fest is well worth a visit. Freed this year from its association
with Daphne du Maurier, it has an interesting programme, and its setting is
ravishingly pretty. There can be few places as charming at this time
of year.
I'm going to be speaking on
day two, after a session about Fifty Shades of Feminism, a collection of essays
exploring "the many shades of being a woman", and just hope that, by the time it's my turn, the
audience won’t have had enough feminism for one day.
