Book Club with Marilynne Robinson

Date: Wednesday 16 May Time: 7pm Venue: St Pancras Room, Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG Tickets: £9.50 Marilynne Robinson will talk to John Mullan about her award-winning novel, Gilead . In 1956, as the Reverend John Ames nears the end of his life, he begins a letter to his young son. Like him, his father and grandfather served as ministers in the impoverished prairie town of Gilead, Iowa. The letter becomes a testament, recording the story of his own life and the tensions between his pacifist father and abolitionist grandfather, who fought in the Civil War. Robinson's novel about fathers and sons, about spirituality and the "damaged heart of America" , was published to great critical acclaim and won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Marilynne Robinson is the author of three non-fiction works and three novels: including Housekeeping and Home , a companion piece to Gilead which won the Orange Prize for fiction in 2009. Book online www.kingsplace.co.uk Box Office: 020 7520 1490