NCBF At Home: Sophie Ward

Описание: Actor Sophie Ward has delivered a truly mind-bending first novel, Love and Other Thought Experiments, which has been justly longlisted for this year's Booker Prize. Rooted in the touching story of a female couple embarking on motherhood but also facing the challenge of brain cancer, it playfully uses long established philosophical fables to stretch her human material this way and that, to explore different interpretations of reality and, indeed, the limits of love, memory and endeavour. In her film Sophie gives us glimpses of her home life, relates writing fiction to a long career of having to imagine alternative realities as a performer, and talks about this extraordinary novel's genesis and her lifelong love of Cornwall.

Credits: Edited Dan Hall. Music: Aran Boat/Ker Syllan by The Rowan Tree. www.therowantreemusic.com.

Realising the pandemic obliged this year's North Cornwall Book Festival to be postponed to October 2021, NCBF has made a series of short films featuring the home and writing lives of the authors who would have spoken in 2020. These films were made with funding from Arts Council England's emergency fund and FEAST. www.ncornbookfest.org.