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Recent talks 2023:
London U3A (November).
The Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garrett (28 Sept) drinking Mildred's Medicine cocktails (a skeleton there has that name).
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Forthcoming talks:
Antrim Road Library 21 November 2024
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'Wry, vivid and deftly plotted, this account of how youthful follies can come back to haunt you in middle age is a real delight.'
John Preston
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'This is a book you’re dying to get back to. Holmes creates a quiet air of tension as she deftly describes the carelessness of youth and its consequences in her endearingly flawed characters. I loved it.'
Hilary Boyd
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'The best new novel of 2016 for me, was The Huntingfield Paintress by Pamela Holmes ….. The story is a true one, but Holmes has written a profound novel about Mildred Holland’s marriage.'
A.N.Wilson, Spectator 2016
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​‘A slice of Suffolk history brought beautifully to life’
Esther Freud
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'An atmospheric and enjoyable story of a singular and free-thinking woman'
Deborah Moggach
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