Culture Night with West Cork Literary Festival

Join us on Culture Night for a free WCLF event with author Anya Bergman. Her new novel The Tarot Reader of Versailles is set in the early days of the French Revolution as terror reigns on the streets of Paris.

Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand is a young woman with an extraordinary power – through her tarot cards, she can commune with the dead, revolutionaries and the aristocracy alike seeking her out to divine their fortunes. Lenormand is loyal to Marie Antoinette and the dauphin of France, but she has seen the queen’s fate in the cards and must take care that it doesn’t become her own. Then, one fateful day, she comes across Cait, a scullery maid from Ireland who has travelled to Paris for love. Cait has powers too – she can read people’s pasts as Lenormand reads their futures. The two young women share an electrifying connection, drawn to each other’s abilities. But Cait is hiding something. What will she do – and who will she betray – to bring revolution to the shores of her beloved Ireland too?

Anya will be in conversation with Oonagh Montague and books will be on sale after the event