An Afternoon with The Reader with special guest Liz Berry

Rescheduled date: Friday 22 November (originally Friday 15 November)

Join The Reader at Wallasey Central Library for an afternoon of Shared Reading where we’ll be focusing on award-winning poet, Liz Berry’s novel-in-verse ‘The Home Child’.  

With her debut collection named poetry book of the year by The Guardian, Liz Berry’s poems are a firm favourite with Shared Reading groups. She will be joining us live to read from and talk about ‘The Home Child’, a book length poem inspired by the true story of her great aunt as a child far from home. In 1908, Eliza Showell, twelve years old and newly orphaned, boards a ship that will carry her from the slums of the Black Country to rural Nova Scotia.