WIGMORE LECTURE: BARBARA HAVELOCKE

Join international bestselling author Barbara Havelocke talking about Estella’s Revenge: the Fearless Daughter of Great Expectations.  From her very first reading of Great Expectations, Barbara fell in love with the story and writing.  She felt dissatisfied with the ending Dickens gave the character of Estella, and found herself wanting to give the famous character her own voice.  In Estella’s Revenge, a dark Gothic retelling, she does just this.  Like Dickens, Barbara few up close to the marshes and was a journalist keen to raise awareness of causes important to her.  As Barbara Copperthwaite, she is the author of six best-selling psychological thrillers.

Estella's Revenge You know Miss Havisham. The world’s most famous jilted bride. This is her daughter’s story. Raised in the darkness of Satis House where the clocks never tick, the beautiful Estella is bred to hate men and to keep her heart cold as the…