Mother's BoyLaura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a baby, Charles, but Laura's husband returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis that will soon leave her a widow. In a small, class obsessed town she raises her boy alone, working as a laundress, and gradually becomes aware that he is some kind of genius. As an intensely private young man, Charles

Beth and Amy - four sisters - enduring hardships and enjoying adventures in Civil War New England

in the far west of Cornwall

and how vital it is for us all

a socialist and a futurist whose new and imaginative worlds continue to inspire today

To err is human

recognition

of siblings vanishing in the night

forbidden affair - but nothing can be kept secret

for fans of He Said/She Said and Anatomy of A Scandal

Charlie didn't know it at the time

The intervening century

The evening will also transport you to the Irish countryside where exclusive behind thescenes footage will reveal the history behind the book