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Amy Bloom, the bestselling author of White Houses, Lucky Us and Away, talks about love and grief, the power and value of human relationship, and the ethical questions surrounding assisted death.
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss is Bloom’s intimate, authentic and startling account of losing Brian, first slowly to the disease of Alzheimer’s, and then on becoming a widow. In conversation with Jenny Lacey, she talks about why she chose to shed light on a part of life we so often shy away from discussing – its ending.
Read a selection of Bloom’s essays and articles here.
Amy Bloom’s In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss is published by Granta. Buy a copy online or at the event in Waterstones.
Amy Bloom is the author of three collections of short stories: Where the God of Love Hangs Out, Come to Me and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, also published in one volume (Rowing to Eden), a collection of essays, Normal, and four novels, White Houses, Lucky Us, Away and Love Invents Us. She is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing at Wesleyan University.
Image Credit: Elena Seibert
Jenny Lacey was for many years an award-winning radio presenter, working for LBC and for the BBC. She was the BBC’s Education Correspondent for the South West, and became Managing Editor of BBC Radio Gloucestershire and then BBC Radio Bristol. She received the Variety Club Independent Radio Personality of the Year award for her work.
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Booking Information
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Accessibility: Waterstones
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• There are Blue Badge parking spaces on Union Street.
• There is level access to the event space.
• Events are amplified but there is no loop system.
• There are toilets for public use.
• Guide and assistance dogs are welcome.