Jenny Colgan

The Summer Skies

Saturday 9th September

3.30pm @ Gaelic College, Bowmore

Jenny Colgan

The Scottish queen of ‘Feel Good Fiction’ will visit Islay as part of a wider island tour! Her brand-new escapist stand-alone novel, The Summer Skies, features Morag, a pilot forced to crash-land on a remote island, where she encounters Gregor, a gruff and reclusive ornithologist. Brace yourself for a good bit of humour, as well as some serious discussion about why ‘Tartan Romance’ shouldn’t be sidelined as it often is, despite being as popular with the public as its more famous cousin ‘Tartan Noir’.

Chaired by Charlène Busalli

Ticket Information

This event costs £5 with a concession price of £3.50.

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About the speaker

Jenny Colgan is married with three children and divides her time between a castle on the coast of Fife and a flat in Edinburgh’s West End. She is the author of numerous Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling novels and has won various awards for her writing, including the Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance, the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award and the RNA Romantic Comedy Novel of the Year Award. Her books have sold more than nine million copies worldwide and in 2015 she was inducted into the Love Stories Hall of Fame.

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