A Night In With Caroline O’Donoghue

I’ll give up the tarot readings. I’ll apologize to Lily.

But Lily doesn’t come to school on Monday. Or Tuesday. It’s not until Wednesday that the police show up.

Maeve Chambers doesn’t have much going for her. Not only does she feel like the sole idiot in a family of geniuses, she managed to drive away her best friend Lily a year ago. But when she finds a pack of dusty old tarot cards at school, and begins to give scarily accurate readings to the girls in her class, she realizes she’s found her gift at last. Things are looking up – until she discovers a strange card in the deck that definitely shouldn’t be there. And two days after she convinces her ex-best friend to have a reading, Lily disappears.

Can Maeve, her new friend Fiona and Lily’s brother Roe find her? And will their special talents be enough to bring Lily back, before she’s gone for good?

In conversation with Jen Cownie of Litwitchure for this exclusive event, Caroline will be talking about the themes of her engrossing story: acceptance, magic and the complexities of teen friendship. She’ll explore self-esteem, blooming romance and social justice, and why she chose to set her supernatural mystery against the backdrop of contemporary Ireland. Plus, Jen and Caroline demonstrate the spellbinding power of tarot...

This promises to be a magical event and is not to be missed.