WHO IS DECIDING OUR FUTURE - SUE DIVIN AT 4 CORNERS FESTIVAL 2022

If you are anyway regular to this blog or my social media you will be well aware of my utter love of Sue Divin’s novel Guard Your Heart. Fr Martin Magill and I even had a slot on BBC NI during NI Book Week where we waxed lyrical. It was my Book Of The Year, albeit in a tie with another Derry/Doire/Londonderry writer Kerri Ní Dochartaigh and her book Thin Places.

In my review of the book here on Soul Surmise I began the piece with the quotation:

“Adults remembered our past. Would they ever remember our future? Smothering the frustration of it building in my gut was harder by the hour. Would our day ever come?”

I went on… It’s a question for more than a novel. It is a question that needs asked every time a leader in our wounded and wonderful island makes a decision. From politics to church to community to education to housing to economics to employment. Let us not smother the future of our gifted and wonderful youth in the old conflicts that had us do incomprehensible and reprehensible things to one another. 

I am thrilled that Sue Divin is reading and speaking about the book at this year’s 4 Corner’s Festival. The evening hosted by American PhD student Mylie Winger Brennan and she hopes to gather a group of young adults to discuss the question Who Is Deciding Our Future?

All participants will have an opportunity to read the book in advance and will be able to share their views on our history, the intergenerational impact of the Troubles, and how they would shape a world where common ground might lead to more common good.

To receive a free copy of Guard Your Heart, register for this event by Thursday, January 27th and provide a mailing address – the book will be sent directly to you.

 

Info and Booking - https://4cornersfestival.com