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Local Author Book Launch: Christopher Bowden ?The Green Door? - Thursday 23rd October 2014


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Dulwich Books invites you to join us in celebrating the launch of ?The Green Door,? the fourth book from local author Christopher Bowden.


The Green Door: Clare Mallory has a Victorian mourning locket with the photograph of a girl and a curl of her hair. When Clare loses the locket in a fortune-teller's tent her quest to find it draws her into a dark episode of the family's past and the true circumstances of the girl's untimely death at Danby Hall, her Norfolk home. The locket has been taken by the fortune-teller herself, sensing a troubled history and danger ahead. But her attempts to understand the warning signs release forces long held at bay. Events of the past seep into the present until the reappearance of a man who vanished from Danby Hall in 1887 threatens not only her life but Clare's too. ?It was lying on the rug with the chain curled round. It must have come off when the girl had grabbed her hat and basket and marched off with barely a word. As soon as she picked the thing up she had felt it and once she had prised it open there was no doubt at all.?


Christopher Bowden lives in south London. His three previous novels are ?The Red House,? ?The Blue Book,? and ?The Yellow Room? - the first published in 2007.


?Draws the reader in immediately and has all the elements of an intriguing mystery. In short, a page-turner. The heroine, Clare, is engaging and Madame Pavonia a suitably exotic yet credibly mundane fortune teller, and throughout there is a nice balance of the chillingly supernatural with a sharply-observed contemporary England peopled by vividly painted characters - some lovely idiosyncratic touches and descriptions.? - Shena Mackay, author of The Booker Prize shortlisted ?The Orchard on Fire.?


Christopher was recently interviewed by ?Dulwich on View,? which can be read here: http://dulwichonview.org.uk/2014/09/16/the-green-door/


This is a free event open to everybody, which will take place at 7.30pm on Thursday 23rd October 2014.For more information please contact Dulwich Books on 020 8670 1920 or email [email protected].


Dulwich Books

6 Croxted Road, West Dulwich, London, SE21 8SW.

0208 670 1920

www.dulwichbooks.co.uk [email protected]

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