Nick Newman
Tuesday 18th February
Topping & Company Booksellers of St Andrews, 7 Greyfriars Garden, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9HG
6.50pm
7.30pm
Nick Newman on The Garden
Nick Newman will be visiting the bookshop in February to present his deliciously evocative new book. The book blends stunning writing with an engrossing narrative that is both a fairy tale and a horror thriller.
In a place and time unknown, two elderly sisters live in a walled garden, secluded from the outside world. For as long as they can remember, Evelyn and Lily have only had each other. What was before the garden, they have forgotten; what lies beyond it, they do not know.
Each day is spent in languid service to their home: tending the bees, planting the crops, and dutifully following the instructions of the almanac written by their mother. So, when a nameless boy is found hiding in the boarded house at the centre of this new Eden, the reality of their existence is irrevocably shattered. Who is he? And where did he come from?
Nick Newman is the pseudonym of critically acclaimed children's author Nicholas Bowling. He has written four novels for young readers including In the Shadow of Heroes (shortlisted for the Costa Children's Book Award) and The Undying of Obedience Wellrest (Financial Times Best YA Books of 2023, Guardian Children's Roundup December 2023).