An evening in conversation with Joanne Harris

Theatre · Leek

An evening in conversation with Joanne Harris

Thursday 22 October 2026 · Doors 18:00

Foxlowe Arts Centre, Leek

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An evening in conversation with Joanne Harris is on Thursday 22 October 2026 at Foxlowe Arts Centre, Leek, with doors at 18:00. Tickets start at £16.50, including the booking fee.

Another celebration of the written word brought to you from Leek Loves Books Sleepers in the Snow is an astonishing, original and powerful novel of love, loss, mystery and dementia, from bestseller Joanne Harris. Out on the moor, in the snow, a house stands beneath a pylon. It is a house full of memories, and full of old things. And, in the dark, when the pylon sings in the wind, it is a house full of ghosts and fading memories… The house, Kirkhill, has a new occupant - just moved in, fresh from a bitter divorce and looking for a fresh start. The moor is the perfect place for it: isolated, beautiful in the changing seasons, peaceful, and with just enough of the previous owners belongings that it's a perfectly self-contained and cosy home. Only as the nights start to draw in, and the weather takes a turn, so does the house. The cosy isolation becomes menacing, animals begin acting strangely, and it seems someone could be watching the house…and the diaries of the previous owners begin to reveal a terrible tragedy which befell Kirkhill - one which its new occupant may be unable to escape… Notes from Joanne. ‘I wrote the first draft of Sleepers very fast, over the course of abo...

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