A Private Event

A Private Event

A novel by Gillian Garnham

£5.99 paperback
ISBN 978-1-903914-21-2

Spring, 1968 - and Paris is witnessing student unrest. In a small suburb to the west of the city, dark deceits fester behind the closed shutters of a quietly decaying house. Family secrets, marital infidelities and casual affairs keep pace with the increasing violence within the city. This is a story of lies and intrigue, of lost love and the pain of betrayal. Rioting threatens to bring Paris to its knees, and public and personal events become increasingly entangled. The private outcome is as unexpected as the near-revolution itself.

Gillian Garnham was born in Cheshire, but has lived for the greater part of her life in the north-east of England. She read English Language and Literature at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where she subsequently taught. She has acted as a college tutor at the University of Durham and has worked in various forms of adult education, principally with the Open University, where she currently teaches as an Associate Lecturer and acts as a part-time administrator and adviser.

She has been a runner-up for the Constable fiction prize and in 2004 was outright winner in the international short story competition organised by Biscuit Publishing. Married, with two grown-up daughters, she lives and works in Durham and France.