An Evening with Sarah Perry

Join us for an evening with internationally best selling author of both fiction and non-fiction titles including Melmoth, The Essex Serpent, After Me Comes the Flood and Essex Girls

The event will explore Sarah's most recent release, Death of an Ordinary Man, her latest fiction novel, Enlightenment as well as her broader writing career.

 Details:

The event will include Sarah Perry in conversation with S E Craythorne, an author reading, audience Q&A session followed by a book signing and chance to meet the author.

Death of an Ordinary Man

Death of an Ordinary Man is an unforgettable account of this universal aspect of life. It is not a book about grief: it is a book about dying, and it is a book about family, and care and love.

Sarah Perry's father-in-law David died in the autumn of 2022, only nine days after a cancer diagnosis. Until then he'd been a healthy and happy man: he loved stamp collecting, fish and chips, comic novels, his local church, and the Antiques Roadshow. He was in some ways a very ordinary man, but as he began to die, it became clear how extraordinary he was.

Sarah and her husband Robert nursed David themselves at home, eventually with the help of carers and visiting nurses. They bathed and cleaned and dressed him, comforted him in pain, sat with him through waking and sleeping, talked to him, sang to him, prayed with him. Day by day and hour by hour, they witnessed what happens to the body and spirit as death approaches and finally arrives.

Date: Friday 24th October

Time: 7pm (doors open from 6.45pm)

Refreshments:

Light Refreshments will be included in the ticket price

Price: 

Event Only: £10 (includes a £4 credit for the Death of an Ordinary Man when purchasing the book on the night of the event.)

Event + Preorder Book: £23.99 (be sure of a copy of Death of an Ordinary Man in case we sell out on the night and benefit from £5 off credit for the book)

Limited places.

Book Only (no event ticket): £18.99 - visit our online bookshop to order the book

Please Note:

All Old School Bookshop event tickets are fully refundable if you provide 14+ days notice. 

Credit included in the event price for book purchases are non-refundable without 14 days notice, non-transferrable to another book and must be redeemed during the event.

Books ordered at the time of booking are non-refundable but remain available for you to pick up from Old School Bookshop.

Please note that the event will address themes of death and terminal illness. Please contact a member of the team if you require any support during or after the event.

Please contact us if you have any access needs or related questions about the event.