Richard Armitage - Geneva

We have the wonderful actor and novelist Richard Armitage joining us for an event! This will be at Camp Hill, where he will be talking about his book 'Geneva', in conversation with Crime fiction writer, Jo Callaghan, author of In the Blink of an Eye.

Richard and Jo will be in conversation for about an hour, followed by a Q&A session and a book signing.

Richard Armitage is a multi-award-winning stage, screen and voice actor best know for his roles in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy, Captain America, Alice Through the Looking Glass and Oceans 8. Geneva is his first novel.

Geneva:
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sarah Collier has started to show the same telltale signs of Alzheimer’s disease as her father: memory loss, even blackouts. So she is reluctant to accept the invitation to be the guest of honour at a prestigious biotech conference - until her husband Daniel, a neuroscientist, persuades her that the publicity storm will be worth it. The technology being unveiled at this conference could revolutionise medicine forever. More than that, it could save Sarah’s life.

In Geneva, the couple are feted as stars - at least, Sarah is. But behind the five-star luxury, investors are circling, controversial blogger Terri Landau is all over the story and Sarah’s symptoms are getting worse. As events begin to spiral out of control, Sarah can’t be sure who to trust - including herself.

Jo Callaghan works full time as a senior strategist, carrying out research into the future impact of AI and genomics on the workforce. She was a student of the Writers' Academy Course (Penguin Random House) and was longlisted for the Mslexia Novel Writing Competition and Bath Novel Competition. After losing her husband to cancer in 2019 when she was just forty-nine, she started writing In the Blink of an Eye, her debut crime novel, which explores learning to live with loss and what it means to be human. She lives with her two children in the Midlands, where she spends far too much time tweeting as @JoCallaghanKat and is currently working on further novels in the series.

This event will take place at Camp Hill School for Girls. Tickets on sale now!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Catherine & Claire