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Book launch for award-winning YA novel
Bristol author, Lu Hersey, is launching her debut novel, Deep Water, at the Arnolfini on Wednesday, July 1 from 6 to 8pm.
Winner of the 2012 Mslexia Children’s Novel Writing Award, Deep Water is a mystery set in a beautiful Cornish village.
When Danni’s mum goes missing, she has no choice but to go and live with Dad – in a remote Cornish fishing village, miles away from home. But when she arrives, complete strangers seem to recognize – and shun – her, despite Danni only having visited once or twice. Worse, strange things start to happen: salt-water seeps through her hands. Her dreams become nightmares. Then her nightmares begin to reflect reality, and Danni discovers she is not entirely who – or even what – she had always assumed.
Hersey worked as an advertising copywriter before becoming a librarian at the University of Bristol and studying for an MA in writing for young people at Bath Spa University, which has produced a slew of award-winning and best-selling writers such as Nathan Filer, Tessa Hadley, Anna Freeman, and Jane Shemilt.
Deep Water is published by Usborne on July 1.
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