A comic novel, some of it set in North Wales, about a before-his-time Victorian poet, nuns and the publishing industry written by Chester-born author Simon Edge; what could be finer?

The Hopkins Conundrum blends the real stories of Gerald Manley Hopkins and the shipwrecked nuns immortalised in his masterpiece The Wreck Of The Deutschland while casting a wry eye on the Da Vinci Code industry in a highly original mix of fiction, literary biography and satirical commentary

Duration

Approx 60 mins

Festival Chester Literature Festival 2022
Storyhouse

Storyhouse’s annual festival of words and ideas returns this coming autumn.