Jenny Colgan in conversation with Anna Day

Join us in conversation with bestselling author Jenny Colgan as she discusses her hugely successful writing career including her latest novel Close Knit. In it, Jenny returns to the remote Scottish Island of Carso where the pilot for the local airline is Morag who stopped flying long haul to return home. Unlike Morag, Gertie has never had the courage to leave the island where she was born. It's the only place she knows, but she can’t do anything without everyone knowing. Especially as she lives in a tiny cottage with her mother and grandmother who are the women at the heart of the local Knitting Circle, a group of strong, capable women who work hard, gossip, knit - and support each other through thick and thin. When the chance comes to make changes - a new job working at the local airport, a new flat, new friends and even a possible new romance - a world of possibilities opens up.

Jenny Colgan is one of the most successful and prolific authors of feel good fiction in the UK. Her numerous Sunday Times, New York Times and internationally bestselling books include almost fifty novels, novellas, short stories and children’s books. Jenny’s books have spent more than thirty weeks on the Sunday Times bestseller list and she has sold more than four million copies in the UK alone, and ten million copies worldwide. She has won various awards for her writing including the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award and the RNA Romantic Comedy Novel of the Year Award. She tackles genuine issues which affect Scottish rural communities and is always topical and of the moment. This event is for an adult audience.

This event is supported by Book Week Scotland 2024 event funding.