Join author Leonora Nattrass, to celebrate the publication of her new novel Blue Water.

The event will initially be broadcast on 31 October at 6.30pm UK time. It will be available to view up to a week after the event has ended and can be accessed Worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not suit the initial broadcast time you can watch it at any point after the initial showing for one week.

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Death arrived with the cormorant. It came aboard on the seventh day of our voyage ... This is the secret report of disgraced former Foreign Office clerk Laurence Jago, written on the mail ship Tankerville en route to Philadelphia. His mission is to aid the civil servant charged with carrying a vital treaty to Congress that will prevent the Americans from joining with the French in their war against Britain. When the civil servant meets an unfortunate ‘accidental’ end, Laurence becomes the one person standing between Britain and disaster. It is his great chance to redeem himself at Whitehall - except that his predecessor has taken the secret of the treaty’s hiding place to his watery grave.

As the ship is searched, Laurence quickly discovers that his fellow passengers all have their own motives to find the treaty for themselves. And as a second death follows the first, Laurence must turn sleuth in order to find the killer before he has an ‘accident’ of his own.

In conversation with Shona MacLean for this event, Leonora will discuss the inspirations for the novel, and the wonderful variety of characters, from French aristocrats, American plantation owners and performing bears. Don’t miss this unique virtual event.