ANNUAL LUNCH

SOLD OUT

13 June 2019

London location TBC

Tickets £100

Acclaimed author Professor Bart van Es, will be speaking about his award-winning novel, The Cut Out Girl – A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found.

Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2018, The Cut Out Girl tells the story of Lien de Jong, a girl taken to a foster family (Bart’s own grandparents) to be hidden away from the Nazis during the Holocaust.

‘Superb. This is a necessary book – painful, harrowing, tragic, but also uplifting’ The Times

‘Deeply moving. Van Es writes with an almost Sebaldian simplicity and understatement’ Guardian

“Van Es has created a masterpiece of history and memoir” Evening Standard