Author Talk - Lauren Chater

Join us for an author talk with Lauren Chater. Lauren is the author of historical novels The Winter Dress, The Lace Weaver and Gulliver’s Wife, as well as the baking compendium Well Read Cookies. Lauren will speak about her latest novel, The Beauties, a seductive story of rivalry and artistic passion. In the seventeenth-century court of King Charles II, Anne Hyde, the Duchess of York has commissioned a series of ten paintings of the most beautiful women in the entourage. She hopes her series will capture something much more than mere likenesses: they will capture beauty itself. But when the exquisite Emilia Lennox arrives at court, the duchess’s mission takes an unexpected turn. When Henry Greenhill is charged with painting Emilia's portrait, he sees it as a chance to step out of his master's shadow and make his name. But Henry's sitter proves strangely evasive, and he will need more than creative talent to capture this incomparable beauty on canvas...

Book sales and signing will be available at the event.