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Expectation

Anna Hope

Sunday, 5 April 2020

12:00pm

1 hour

Oxford Martin School: Seminar Room

£7 - £12.50

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Bestselling novelist Anna Hope talks about her new contemporary novel Expectation – a story of three friends trying to find their way in life as mothers, daughters, wives and rebels.

Expectation is about best friends Hannah, Kate and Lissa whose young lives in east London are full of art, activism, romance, revelry and the promise of what is to come. Ten years on, amidst flailing careers and failing marriages, they each find themselves hungering after what the others have and all are questioning how to lead a meaningful life.
‘Profoundly intelligent and humane. Deserves to feature on many a prize shortlist’ The Guardian.

Expectation is Hope’s first contemporary novel. Her first two novels set in the early 20th century, Wake and The Ballroom, won rave reviews and went on to be bestsellers. Here she talks to fellow novelist Marlene Hauser, author of Off-Island

Note: this event was originally listed for Wednesday 1 April and has now been changed to Sunday 5 April.

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FT Weekend Title partner BBC World Service International radio partner Oxford Martin School Festival ideas partner Bodleian Libraries Festival cultural partner University of Oxford New College Jewish Book Week Partner of Jewish programme Italian Embassy Supporter of Italian programme Irish Embassy, London Supporters of the Irish programme MIT Press MIT Press. Sponsors of the programme of American literature and culture The Dorchester Hotels Collection Festival London hotel partner Blackwell’s Festival on-site and online bookseller Princeton University Press British Academy Festival academic partner Ian and Carol Sellars Emily Rose and James Marrow Lady Hatch Patron donor for the programme of Irish literature and culture George Warren Mary and Cecil Quillen Worcester College Worcester College Lincoln College Lincoln College St Hilda’s College 11th St Hilda's day at the festival St Cross College St Cross College The Feathers Hotel Woodstock Macdonald Bear Hotel Woodstock Critchleys Felicity Bryan Associates Conference Oxford Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies University of Oxford Alumni Office Alumni Office Said Business School Bear Ram Elk Festival Digital Strategy & Web Design BBC Radio Oxford Local radio partner The Oxford Times Regional media partner Oxford Brookes University Oxford University Images Oxford University Images The Sheldonian Theatre Floris of London City Audio Visual Schoolreaders The Litmus Partnership K T Bruce Photography K T Bruce Photography OX magazine History of War All About History Glyndebourne Chamberlain Evans Estate agents Ironbridge Gorge Museums Foodbuy Chêne Bleu Frescobaldi Toscana Wines of Tuscany Symington Wines of the Douro Valley Sloane Club Steer Oxford Botanic Garden Cinnamon Kitchen Compassion in World Farming The Wild Geese