Meet the Author
with
Debbie Wastling
Tuesday 27th May, 7pm
at The Rabbit Hole, Brigg
(Venue subject to change should interest exceed capacity)
Debbie Wastling is back in the UK from her home in the USA and will be at The Rabbit Hole on Tuesday 27th May at 7pm talking about her books The Sutherland Scandals and Soundtracks of their Lives
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Tickets are available to book on a Pay What You'd Like basis and should be reserved in advance either from The Rabbit Hole or via the link below. Donations will go towards covering the cost of the evening, as well as keeping No Limits Festival alive!
About The Sutherland Scandals​
1890
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Beginning in Newcastle, Northern England, we meet J.B. Sutherland—brewer and eventual owner of the The Barley Mow. This family saga is told by his middle daughter, Elizabeth, whose childhood is wonderful until her father suddenly dies, and their eldest illegitimate brother, John Thomas, shows up at their father's funeral to inherit the pub.
Navigating the various scandals of their family life, with the family, the author's own, ultimately ending up in Hull.
About The Soundtrack of their Lives
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Yorkshire, England, 1925:
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Based on the true story of the author's own family, opera singer Alice Neil-Gregory, her husband Amos Bell, train driver of the Flying Scotsman. Following the ups and downs of their lives together, through WWII when Hull, their home city, becomes the most bombed city in Northern England.
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A heart-wrenching novel of family pain, holding long-lasting grudges of a dysfunctional family.​
About Debbie Wastling
Debbie Wastling wrote her first play before she left her British High School. She wrote songs in the rock bands she played within, then original musicals for the companies she directed for, plus scenes for the actors she taught. On moving to Los Angeles, she won the Women in Theatre award for re-writing and editing 'Hamlet' for an all-woman cast and a TV show ‘Dicken’s Women’.
This led her to the non-profit world to educate teaching artists on how to write curricula and raise funds by grant writing for their work. She has raised over 3K for educational arts as a grant writer. She has completed three novels in this family saga and is starting novel four.
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