The challenge of fiction
Quaker author Jennifer Kavanagh has just published her first novel The Emancipation of B. She talked about it recently at Westminster Meeting House with Geoffrey Durham. Ian Kirk-Smith was there.
‘I am interested in what constitutes loneliness and in the difference between solitude and loneliness.’
Jennifer Kavanagh is best known for a series of thoughtful non-fiction works on subjects such as travel, spirituality, homelessness and aspects of Quakerism.
The quote above gave an insight into the link between the author’s non-fiction writing and her first published foray into the world of fiction – the novel The Emancipation of B. Loneliness is an enduring subject of concern.
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