9:00am - 5:30pm Monday to Saturday [Thursday until 7pm from 20th November] Sunday 11am-4pm from 9th November
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Saturday Signing – Come and Meet Author Fran Hill
August 2 @ 10:30 am - 1:30 pm
Come and meet author Fran Hill, who will be signing copies of her new book, Home Bird.
- Jackie Chadwick is 17 and living in a supported bedsit. She’s still close to her foster parents and friends with (aka unofficial minder for) Amanda, their irresponsible daughter, but she’s enjoying her independence – until a fire leaves her temporarily homeless. As things go from bad to worse, Jackie has to decide how many chances you give someone who keeps letting you down.
Bittersweet and funny, Home Bird draws on Fran Hill’s own experiences as a teenager in foster care.
Fran Hill is a full-time author and retired English teacher from Warwickshire who was in foster care as a child. Her first novel Cuckoo in the Nest was runner-up for the Paul Torday Memorial Prize in 2024. Her memoir Miss, What Does Incomprehensible Mean? was published in 2020. Fran lives with her gardener husband and has three grown-up children and two grandchildren.