USA Publication Day…and an Anniversary
Felice in conversation with Richard Hopton at the Sherborne Literary Society. Photo: © P. Hardy
Three Events
Three things happened yesterday. Number one: my book was published in the USA and Canada, although the Kindle version had already been available there for a while. Let’s hope that I get a few more reviews from the US now. So far (on Amazon) I have 33 ratings of which nine are actual written reviews…but only one is from anyone in North America…so far! Anyone reading this who’s bought my book at an independent book store (so much nicer!), it would be great if you’d leave a review for me on Goodreads.
Some of the audience at Sherborne Literary Society event. Photo: © P. Hardy
In the evening I gave a book talk for the Sherborne Literary Society at the Raleigh Hall in the pretty Dorset town of Sherborne. The audience (about 50 people) was fantastic, one of the best I’ve had so far: really engaged and interested in my talk. Afterwards, several people thanked me for ‘an inspirational talk’! I was in conversation with historian and author, Richard Hopton, who asked some excellent questions. Winstone’s of Sherborne almost sold out of books during my signing afterwards.
Liesl and David on their honeymoon in Venice, 1924. Photo: © Felice Hardy library
The 5th September was also the 100th anniversary of the day my grandparents met in the Louvre, Paris in 1923. My grandfather, David, was taking his football team, Hakoah Vienna, home from London, where they had just beaten West Ham United 5-0. On their way home, they stopped in Paris for a few days to celebrate. My grandmother, Liesl, was studying history of art at the Sorbonne at the time. David and Liesl married just under a year later and my grandmother came to join my grandfather in Vienna. It was at that point that my grandmother took up tennis rather more seriously than she had done before.
