An Evening With Claire McGowan

​Join us for an evening of stories with bestseller Claire McGowan. Claire will be discussing what inspired her to write The First Girl, her research and the real-life cases, as well as her use of an unreliable narrator to tell the story.

​Hosted by our lead bookseller, Darren, every ticket includes a copy of Claire's new book, The First Girl.

​About The Book: The First Girl

​Writer Karen Walker knows more than most about murderers. Her first love went on to become The Bagman, a notorious serial killer, now locked away for life in a maximum-security prison.

​Karen has spent her life running from the weight of having loved and defended him, ultimately coming to her senses and leading the police to his door. But now, ten years later, just as she’s about to publish her account of his crimes, a young woman is abducted in horribly familiar circumstances.

​It can’t be The Bagman…can it? He’s safely behind bars, thanks to her. But she has to know for sure.

​Returning to the hometown she thought she’d left for good, Karen is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse with the man she’s never escaped. If there’s any chance of saving the kidnapped girl, she’ll have to face up to what really happened back then, once and for all…

​A gripping thriller, that questions how memories mess with our mind and unfolds in a thrilling heart stopping conclusion. Perfect for fans of Liane Moriarty, Claire Douglas and Lisa Jewell.

​About Claire McGowan

​Claire McGowan published her first novel in 2012 and has followed it up with numerous bestsellers in the crime fiction genre. She also writes women’s fiction as Eva Woods.

​Claire has had four radio plays broadcast on the BBC, and her thrillers What You Did and The Other Wife were both number-one bestsellers. She ran the UK’s first MA in crime writing for five years, and regularly teaches and talks about writing. She also writes scripts and has several projects in development for TV.