Acclaimed Irish writer Hugo Hamilton will be at Kennys Bookshop on August 22nd, joining Tom Kenny in conversation to celebrate the launch of his new novel, Conversation with the Sea.

Tickets for this event are free but are limited, and you can book here.

Hugo Hamilton is a bestselling Irish novelist, memoirist and playwright. He is the acclaimed author of five novels, one collection of short stories and two memoirs. The Speckled People, the bestselling memoir of his German-Irish childhood in Dublin, won the prestigious PRIX FEMINA etranger in France, as well as the Berto Prize in Italy, and has been translated into twenty languages.

About Conversation with the Sea:
Fleeing his failed marriage in Berlin, Lukas Dorn revisits the West of Ireland, the place of his honeymoon two decades earlier. While his former wife is being cancelled at work and his daughter is arrested at a street protest, he tries to make sense of his broken life with his journal as his sole companion.

His inherited memory of the Nazi Holocaust comes face to face with the present when he meets a refugee from a recent warzone. As Lukas communes with the elements in this wild coastal place, he is forced into a confrontation with the past that will carry him to the edge of existence.

Conversation with the Sea speaks with heart-rending tenderness to the present moment, as it explores truth, illusion and the deadly silencing of war in a captivating tale of love in a time of displacement.

Pre-order Conversation with the Sea: The Kennys Exclusive Signed Limited Edition of Conversation with the Sea is available for pre-order via Kenny’s website. Copies will be available to buy at the event. This hardback edition is limited to 500 copies and is signed and numbered by the author.

If you have any questions on this event or would like to be notified of other events at Kennys Bookshop, please email martha@kennys.ie.