Outside NewsFeb 25

Line-up of top authors taking shape for Dulverton and Exmoor Literary Festival

SIR Michael Morpurgo, former Children’s Laureate and author of acclaimed children’s novel ‘War Horse’, will be returning among a number of top authors speaking at the fifth Dulverton Exmoor Literary Festival later this year.

The festival, from Friday to Monday, November 13 to 16, will also feature an interview with Sir Michael’s wife Clare, daughter of the founder of Penguin Books and who runs the charity Farms for City Children.

Other guest speakers include Emily Howes, the award-winning author of ‘The Painter’s Daughters’.

Line-up of top authors taking shape for Dulverton and Exmoor Literary Festival, wsfp.co.uk #EmilyHowes #LiteraryFestival #SirMichaelMorpurgo
ParacyclopsOct 20, 2024

The painter Thomas Gainsborough is a local hero where I live, which is what prompted me to read Emily Howes's 'The Painter's daughters', but I'd recommend it to anyone. It's a beautiful, complex, fast-paced, and moving novel.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6931678340

#historicalfiction #thomasgainsborough #emilyhowes #thepaintersdaughters #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

Oliver Arditi's review of The Painter's Daughters

5/5: Emily Howes picked out a couple of individuals forgotten by history, prompted perhaps by the vividness of the portraits their father painted of them. The Painter's daughters takes its title from Thomas Gainsborough's painting 'The Painter's daughters chasing a butterfly', and it tells a story of those two women, from early childhood until the end of their lives. It is one version of them, making several assumptions that a historian would question, but it is in many ways extremely plausible. As a representation of the experience of middle-class women in eighteenth century England, it is rema...