An Evening with James Wood
Tuesday 29 May 2018, 6 p.m. · 54 minutes![](https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/300_filter/images/2/5/1/2/532152-7-eng-GB/5adde297aa531.jpg 300w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/400_filter/images/2/5/1/2/532152-7-eng-GB/5adde297aa531.jpg 400w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/800_filter/images/2/5/1/2/532152-7-eng-GB/5adde297aa531.jpg 800w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/1200_filter/images/2/5/1/2/532152-7-eng-GB/5adde297aa531.jpg 1200w)
Over six winter days in upstate New York the Querry family, its members variously afflicted by painful divorce, bereavement and depression, wrestle with life’s fundamental questions. Why do some people find living so much harder than others? Is happiness a skill that can be learned, or a lucky accident of birth? Is reflection helpful to happiness or an obstacle to it? Profoundly moving and quietly humorous, Wood’s second novel is, as Rebecca Adams wrote in the Financial Times, ‘stubbornly true to life.’ Wood read from Upstate (Cape), and discussed it with the audience.
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