Howard Jacobson - What Will Survive of Us

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This talk is based on the book which was highly recommended by the Observer, The Telegraph and the Sunday Times.

Love can change your life. Can it survive marriage and middle age?Lily falls in love with Sam the minute she sets eyes on him. It takes Sam a day or two longer. Curious, because Lily independent, headstrong and rational has never quite believed in love; while Sam confident, passionate, romantic thought he understood it inside out.Lily is an award-winning television documentary maker. Sam is an award-winning playwright. Both are in relationships that have quietly expired, but their encounter makes Lily and Sam come alive again. As they begin to work together on the page and on screen, an affair takes hold that they are powerless to resist.Arriving in mid-life, their relationship opens unexpected new worlds and, for Lily, offers her a surprising form of liberation. But what will happen to them when familiarity, illness and age begin to take their toll? What will survive? Taking us to the edge of desire, love and betrayal across a lifetime, What Will Survive of Us reveals what is left of us when we strip away every layer.

Howard Jacobson has written seventeen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question. An award-winning writer and broadcaster, he lectured for three years at the University of Sydney before returning to teach at Selwyn College, Cambridge.A Q&A Session will follow.