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This Salon celebrates Kate's very first, brand new memoir, beautifully shining a light on the joys and challenges of being a carer. Kate is interviewed by broadcaster and star interviewer Sam Baker. We and our audience were completely taken with Kate and Sam and their insightful, moving and hugely fascinating conversation - so much so that many in the audience have already written to us to say they're watching the Salon back a second time! We hope you'll enjoy it as much as we all did.
An Extra Pair of Hands sees Kate shift focus from historical fiction to personal history. Here she tells her own story - of finding herself as a carer in middle age: first, helping her heroic mother care for her beloved father through Parkinson's, then supporting her mother in widowhood, and finally as ‘an extra pair of hands’ for her 90-year-old mother-in-law. If you follow Kate on Twitter, you’ll already know beloved Granny Rosie, who has become a social media sensation in her own right!
As our population ages, more and more of us find ourselves caring for parents and loved ones – there are nearly 9 million people in caring roles in the UK. Many are unpaid and unsupported. Kate’s book is a love-letter to carers but it’s never sentimental. By showing us what being a carer really means, it invites us to care too. It’s about juggling priorities, mind-numbing repetition, about guilt and powerlessness and grief. It’s also about celebrating older people, learning to live differently and think differently about ageing. But most of all, it’s a story about love.
Kate Mosse is an international bestselling writer with global sales of more than eight million books, including The Taxidermist's Daughter, Labyrinth and The Burning Chambers. She is the Founder Director of the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Sam was Editor of Red and Cosmopolitan before co-founding The Pool. She is the author of five novels and one work of non-fiction, The Shift: How I (Lost And) Found Myself After 40 - And You Can Too, which is also a hit podcast. Sam has judged the Costa Novel Award and the Women’s Prize for Fiction. She is a star interviewer at festivals including Cheltenham and Edinburgh, and her recent guests have included Nigella Lawson, Isabel Allende, Bret Easton Ellis, Marian Keyes, Celeste Ng and Philippa Perry.
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This event is produced and presented by Damian Barr’s Literary Salon.