We’re delighted to welcome bestselling author Jodi Picoult to Penarth as part of the UK tour for her gripping new book, Hollow Bones.

A compelling and emotionally rich new novel, Hollow Bones explores the lies we tell ourselves as we write the narratives of our lives, the plans we make to protect ourselves in our darkest moments, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters.

Join us at Penarth Pier Pavilion for a wonderful afternoon in the company of one of the world’s best-loved storytellers, as Jodi discusses her powerful new book.

Hollow Bones:
On September 11th, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was only two months old, her mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never came home. Her father and the stepmother who raised her couldn’t have loved her more, but she still grew up with a healthy dread of disasters.

Now an adult, she runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness, mapping out ways to save lives during storms, epidemics, and airplane crashes. She and her husband, Jesse—a police polygraph expert with his own history of crisis—have found a love that is a solace in a dangerous world.

But then the unexpected upends their new marriage, leading them both to question everything they thought they knew.

Jodi Picoult is the bestselling author of 30 novels, with 60 million copies sold worldwide. She has had 17 Sunday Times number one bestsellers. Five novels have been made into movies and Between The Lines (co-written with daughter Samantha van Leer) has been adapted as a musical. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction, the Alex Award from the YA Library Services Association, and the NH Literary Award for Outstanding Literary Merit. She is also the co-librettist for the musicals BREATHE and THE BOOK THIEF. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband.