Patricia Duncker, Bloomsbury Book Club

To celebrate the London Book Fair and London Book and Screen Week, the Bloomsbury Institute invites you to spend an evening with John Mullan and Patricia Duncker as they explore the relationship between publishers and their authors, through Patricia’s entertaining new novel Sophie and the Sibyl – a lively imagining of the great, unconventional novelist George Eliot as well as a witty tale of love, literature and liberal thinking.
Together, John Mullan and Patricia Duncker will discuss the difficulties of using well-known figures from history to create a work of fiction – with particular emphasis on the mysterious relationship between the German publishers that share Patricia’s last name, and the inimitable George Eliot, an author renowned as much for her brilliant novels as for her unconventional life.