Play on Words Festival - Mothers of the Mind with Rachel Trethewey

As part of the Play on Words Festival 2024

Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie and Sylvia Plath are three of our most famous authors, this talk explores the story of the remarkable mothers who shaped them. Born and educated in Torquay, Rachel Trethewey read History at Oxford University, where she won the Philip Geddes Prize for Student journalism. After working for the Daily Express, The Daily Mail and Westcountry Television, she did a PhD at Exeter University. She has written four non-fiction books.

Thursday 25 April 12.30pm | £6

(Formerly the English Riviera Literature Festival)

A daytime talk followed by a book signing.