We're are so excited to welcome Anya Bergman to Rare Birds to discuss her enchanting new novel The Tarot Reader of Versailles.

Join us for a magical chat with Anya as we dive into her novel and discover how tarot helped to shape the story. Afterwards, stick around for a special signing where she’ll pull a tarot card just for you and add a personalised touch to your book.

Tickets are £5 and can be redeemed against any purchase on the evening of the event. 

Timings

• Doors open from: 6:30pm
• Talk begins: 7:00pm 

About the book

Two women. An extraordinary power. An explosive bond. In a time of revolution, their fates will lie in the turn of a card.

It is the early days of the French Revolution and, on the streets of Paris, terror reigns. Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand is a young woman with an extraordinary power - through her tarot cards, she can commune with the dead, revolutionaries and the aristocracy alike seeking her out to divine their fortunes. Lenormand is loyal to Marie Antoinette and the dauphin of France, but she has seen the queen's fate in the cards and must take care that it doesn't become her own.

Then, one fateful day, she comes across Cait, a scullery maid from Ireland who has travelled to Paris for love. Cait has powers too - she can read people's pasts as Lenormand reads their futures. The two young women share an electrifying connection, drawn to each other's abilities.

But Cait is hiding something. What will she do - and who will she betray - to bring revolution to the shores of her beloved Ireland too?Inspired by the astonishing true story of Marie-Anne Adelaide Lenormand, The Tarot Reader of Versailles is a sweeping, powerful novel where allegiances, betrayals and even fate itself can be forged or broken by the turn of a card.

About the author

Anya Bergman is the internationally bestselling Irish author of The Witches of Vardø shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year 2023 and a Sunday Times Historical Fiction Book of 2023.

Anya has published ten novels under her real name Noelle Harrison and possesses a doctorate in Creative Writing from Edinburgh Napier University where she is also co-programme leader of the Global Online Master’s in Genre Fiction. 

The Tarot Reader of Versailles is her second Anya Bergman novel.

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