FROME EVENT | Exit Wounds: A Story of Life, Loss and Occasional Wars

Friday 17th October, 7.30pm at The Archangel (Naval Room), Frome

Join us for an intimate evening with the award-winning author Peter Godwin as he talks about his latest memoir Exit Wounds.

Peter Godwin has lived an extraordinary life: he is an award-winning author, journalist, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, and former human rights lawyer.

Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Peter was conscripted at the age of seventeen to fight in the Rhodesian Bush War; as an adult he later returned to Zimbabwe as a journalist to cover the bloody transition to majority rule. His books blend the political with the personal - painting a startling, tender, and complicated portrait of his homeland and of his relationship with his ageing parents.

In Exit Wounds, Peter contemplates both the end of his marriage and the imminent death of his mother. At this point of rupture, Peter reflects on his family’s legacy of exile and their tenuous hold on home. He considers, with both tenderness and candour, the life of émigrés, exiles and refugees, and grieves the many losses that make life both magnificent and unbearable.

Peter will be in conversation with friend and fellow journalist, Sarah Murray. Early booking is highly recommended.

Peter Godwin is the author of six non-fiction books including Mukiwa, which received the George Orwell Prize and the Esquire-Apple-Waterstones award, and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, which won the Borders Original Voices Award. His book The Fear was selected by the New Yorker as a best book of the year. He has taught writing at Wesleyan and Columbia, and served as President of the PEN American Center. He is an Orwell fellow and a Guggenheim fellow. He lives in New York City.

Important details:
We regret that the venue is not wheelchair friendly as it accessible by stairs only.
The event starts at 7.30pm (Doors at 7pm; The Archangel is open for drinks all day)
There is no parking at the venue but plenty of parking in the Town Centre car parks (free after 6pm).

Please note - Event tickets are not shipped but your name goes onto the guest list, please use the confirmation email as proof of purchase if needed.