Armagh author the guest at library night
ARMAGH author Anne Doughty will be the guest speaker at an event being held in Portadown Library on Wednesday evening, February 27.
Anne will be talking about her latest book, ‘A Girl Called Rosie’.
The event has been organised by the Friends of Portadown Library and is sponsored by the Southern Education and Library Board . Light refreshments will be served from 7pm and the talk will start at 7.30. Admission is free.
The novel is dedicated to Anne’s uncle, Mackie Spratt, and part of the story is based at Richhill Railway Station. Mackie was born in a farmhouse beside the station, and this is where the book’s main character, Rosie Hamilton, also begins her life.
‘A Girl Called Rosie’ is the latest in the sequence of stand-alone novels on the Hamilton family, that Anne began when she returned to Ulster in 1998. It is set in the 1920s and tells the story of Rosie Hamilton.
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Said Anne, “Uncle Mack was one of my biggest fans. When I gave him a copy of my first novel he decided he couldn’t be seen reading what he called ‘a woman’s book’ but curiosity got the better of him and he began to have a look. He was amazed.
“He said he could picture every stone and bush, every road and tree and he could just hear the people talking. Thereafter, he read everything I wrote and passed his copies on to friends and neighbours.”
Sadly, Mack died in April, on the very day AnneI finished ‘a Girl Called Rosie’. “So, what could be more appropriate than to dedicate it to his memory, “ she added.
‘A Girl Called Rosie’ is published by Severn House, and is available at the library next Wednesday night, or on the internet at www.amazon.co.uk.
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