Text from youtube "Writer Francis Spufford in conversation with Sarah Perry, discussing what it means to be ‘good’ as a novelist.
Sarah Perry's recent novel, The Essex Serpent, was a number one bestseller and Waterstone's Book of the Year 2016. It was the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year and Overall Book of the Year 2017, and was subsequently nominated for a further eight literary prizes, including the Costa Novel Award 2017 and the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction 2017.The Essex Serpent, called 'the gothic hit of the year' ponders matters of faith, mystery, justice and the rational in a nineteenth century England 'that, if you blinked, looked a little like ours'. She was herself brought up in a Strict Baptist family and 'hopes one day to write a book without a vicar in it'. Her forthcoming, even more gothic novel, Melmoth, is that book; it appears from Serpent's Tail in October 2018. Sarah Perry lives in Norwich with her husband.
How To Be Good is a series of conversations between Francis Spufford and five distinguished professionals in which they discuss what 'good' looks like in their working lives, how they negotiate difficult ethical territory, and how their professional 'goodness' is informed, challenged, or at odds with the Christian tradition.
The events take place on Thursdays at 6.45pm in the Drawing Room of The Bishop's House, Ely, starting on 6 September 2018. Videos of each talk are being released on the Ely Cathedral YouTube channel at 7pm on the following Monday, from 10 September to 8 October 2018.
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