2x In person tickets to Megan Hunter | Days of Light Sat 22 Nov | 4:00pm, Old Divinity School, Cambridge.

Not every debut writer has their first novel snapped up for film, but that is exactly what happened to Megan Hunter, whose prizewinning The End We Start From went on to garner wide acclaim. Now, with her third novel Days of Light, she brings us her most ambitious and radiant work yet.

Set across six pivotal days over six decades, the novel begins on Easter Sunday, 1938. Nineteen-year-old Ivy, full of hope and longing, gathers with her sprawling bohemian family at their Sussex home on the cusp of war. But when tragedy strikes and her brother Joseph is lost to the river, Ivy’s life is forever altered. At his funeral, she encounters the man she will marry, and the woman she will love for the rest of her life.

Inspired in part by the Bloomsbury Group, but moving firmly into bold fictional and sometimes counterfactual territory, Days of Light is a luminous novel of art and ambition, faith and desire, charting a queer love story of life-affirming, hope-restoring power.

Join Megan Hunter as she discusses this profoundly moving story of love, loss and the pursuit of meaning across the twentieth century.

In conversation with Erica Wagner

Venue: Old Divinity School

Duration: 1 hour