Book Launch: Clara and Christina by Andrew Cunning, International Debut Novel Competition Winner
You are warmly invited to join Andrew Cunning for the launch of his debut novel, Clara and Christina at the Irish Writers Centre on Wed 5th August. The novel was a winner of the 2025 International Debut Novel Competition, and this event brings the novel back to where it’s publication journey began! The event will be hosted by Patrick Holloway, author of The Language of Remembering. Come along for an evening of conversation, reading, questions and wine! All very welcome.
About Clara and Christina
When young academic Clara Wilson gets the opportunity to interview the acclaimed novelist Christina Darnell in Belfast, she anticipates a major biographical scoop for her academic book. Who is this mysterious writer? What secrets are lingering behind her novels? And why has she agreed to be interviewed again so late in her career? Clara wants to unpeel the truth behind the fiction. But Christina has another lesson in store for Clara.
Over a few months, a relationship forms between two women who live their lives in books. Clara, writing her first, leans in and learns from a writer finishing her final book. During this time, Clara, face to face with her hero, begins to question her own convictions. Faced with a publication deadline, a newfound friendship with her subject and Christina’s own failing health, Clara questions the very logic of her life, ultimately asking herself: what if there is nothing but fiction?
