Maria Dahvana Headley will be at Foyles, Charing Cross, on Tuesday 6 November 2018 at 7pm.
In conversation with long-time collaborator and friend, Neil Gaiman, Headley will be discussing her new novel, The Mere Wife, the much-awaited 21st century feminist retelling of Beowulf.
To those who live there, Herot Hall is a paradise — a self-sustaining community shielded from the outside world — but to those who live secretly along its periphery, Herot Hall is a fortress. Gren lives with his mother Dana just outside the limits of Herot Hall. A former soldier, Dana didn’t want Gren, didn’t plan Gren, and doesn’t know how she got Gren. But now that she has him, she’s determined to protect him from a world that sees him only as a monster. Join Headley as she discusses the themes of Beowulf and her adaptation of it.
Tickets, including a copy of The Mere Wife, cost £15.
Tickets alone cost £8.
Student and Foyalty member tickets cost £5.
