Ruth Hogan and Hannah Beckerman Chaired by Lucy Atkins

Novelists Ruth Hogan and Hannah Beckerman talk about their latest works, which deal with difficult family relationships and secrets.

Hogan’s Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel is the story of independent woman Tilda still damaged by her mother’s unexplained decision to send her away from her home to boarding school. After her mother’s death she sets out to unravel the mystery and discovers her mother is not the one she knew at all. Hogan is also author of The Keeper of Lost Things and The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes.

Beckerman’s If Only I Could Tell You is about a family split in two, but still connected, by a secret that goes back 30 years. How can they find their way back to each other? Beckerman is a literary critic and a judge on numerous prizes including the Costa awards.

Discussions are chaired by journalist and novelist Lucy Atkins, author of The Night Visitor, The Other Child and The Missing One.