BookBar Presents... An Evening with Francesca Reece

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We are so proud and to be celebrating our bookseller Francesca's new novel Glass Houses. Set in her home of North Wales, it's a deeply personal and political novel about home, first love, land and who is entitled to it.

Forester Gethin Thomas is struggling to make ends meet in his rural hometown in North Wales. Bright, charming, but unambitious, the thing that keeps him going is Tŷ Gwydr, a beautiful lakeside house that he keeps an eye on for absent English owners. The house has been empty for so long he’s come to think of it as his own.  That is until the owners decide to sell, sending Geth into freefall. And when he discovers that Olwen, his first love who left him and their small town for a new life in London, has returned to…