We’re delighted to welcome Jody White to the bookshop as part of our week-long 4 o’clock festival friends schedule.

‘Chimera is an alchemical dive into teenage illness – a near-death initiation framed by the innate, mythic stories that touch all our lives.’

After a whirlwind of intensive treatment, close to death, Jody dreamed his way into the care of a wizened cowboy, his own personal SWAT team, and a mysterious old crone who wanders the desert collecting wolf bones.

Chimera: Living Through Leukaemia is an absorbing memoir that is all at once a coming-of-age story of a young man’s awakening and the seemingly insurmountable obstacle to that journey that his life-threatening illness presents.

Jody will talk about the book and his forthcoming work which is a continuation on that theme. Do not think this is a story steeped in self-pity and gloom. Rather a tale of inspiration and humour. We can all learn from Jody’s journey and how he expresses the challenges his treatment presented, then and now.

TICKETS

This is an unticketed event as we are running an author signing/reading at 4 o’clock daily during Hay Festival (more details to follow).

At North Books, 4 Castle Street, Hay-on-Wye on Wednesday 31 May, 4pm.

THE AUTHOR

Jody White was born in Wakefield, North Yorkshire, but grew up in the rural idyll of Bridgnorth, Shropshire. In 2017 he founded The Lumieres Podcast. He currently lives in the Herefordshire Marches, a few miles from the town of Hay-on-Wye.