Join the MoLI Book Club to explore a diverse selection of titles with unique insights from a special guest. An informal hour of conversation, discussion and reading, the book club is presented online via Zoom four times per year. The MoLI Book Club is free to join for MoLI Members, but booking is essential.
In this edition of the MoLI Book Club, we will read Water in the Desert, Fire in the Night by Gethan Dick, described as a novel “about hope, wolves, companionship and resilience, hunger and gold. It’s about an underachieving millennial, a retired midwife and a charismatic Dubliner who set out from London after the end of the world to cycle to a sanctuary in the southern Alps.” The author will join MoLI’s Benedict Schlepper-Connolly in conversation for the event.
Gethan Dick was born in 1980 in Belfast and grew up in the West of Ireland. She moved to London for an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. She then studied at Camberwell College of Art and shifted her creative practice towards text-based and co-created visual art. She moved to Marseille, France, where she has lived since 2011, working as one half of visual-arts duo gethan&myles with her partner, Myles Quin. They have two children, and in her spare time she swims, cycles, jumps off rocks into the sea or heads for the hills.
