Debut novelist Emily Howes meets the highly regarded writer and critic Antonia Senior to talk about the eighteenth-century artist Thomas Gainsborough and the writing of her book, The Painter’s Daughters. It’s a reimagining of the lives of Gainsborough’s two daughters, Peggy and Molly, and the complicated relationship between them. Winner of the Mslexia Novel Competition and chosen for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club, the novel explores the story of the sisters – famously immortalised in their father’s paintings – and their struggles with society, control, individuality and insanity.
Antonia Senior is a highly regarded writer, journalist and critic. She specialises in historical fiction and writes regularly for The Times, The Guardian and The Spectator.
This is the Debut Author Event, sponsored by the Bell family.
