Book signing with Caroline McGhie

Meet Caroline McGhie as she joins us in the Gift Shop signing copies of her latest book The Sitter. This is a Norfolk novel by a Norfolk writer published by a small indie East Anglian publisher.

The Sitter is a perfect evocation of late Victorian Norfolk, and a fine-spun tale of love and learning in an age of seismic change.

Adolescent baker’s boy Jack catches sight of a beautiful woman alighting from a train at dusk. His remote Norfolk village is built around a railway maintenance hub known as The Works which is ruled by ritual, hierarchy and God.

Newcomer Rosie is escaping a secret past involving a well-known London cartoonist who is a proponent of early ‘sensual’ photography. A beguiling tale of love and learning unfolds against the backdrop of the hardships faces by the railwaymen and fishermen of the time.

Poignant and moving, this literary novel weaves the key themes of women’s rights, childhood memories, sexual freedom, religion, art and risqué photography around its compelling cast of characters. Based on extensive research in and around Melton Constable and Cromer. The Sitter exudes the charms of Victorian Norfolk and a nostalgia for the steam railways.