Behind the Sky ticket

Join us for an evening in conversation with Megan Angharad Hunter to talk about her new book Behind the Sky.

When: 11/12/26 18:30 start (doors 18:15)

Where: 26a Crwys Road, CF24 4NL

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There will be books available to buy at the event or you can preorder here. 

Book - £9.99 (£2 off the ticket price if you preorder the book)

There is an option to pay what you can as we would like to keep this event accessible for all. There is a limited number of PWYC tickets so please only use it if you need to.

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About the book:

Sixteen-year-old Deian wants to be something that doesn’t exist: normal. He wants to ride the school bus without having a panic attack and to have real conversations with real friends, not imagined ones with dead artists.

Anest, 17, has long abandoned her quest for normality. She doesn’t think she deserves to be here on, so doesn’t really care if everyone else thinks she’s obnoxious (well, maybe everyone apart from that girl she can’t stop staring at in group therapy).

The two very different teens meet by chance late one night. They support each other unfailingly, but are unable to turn that same affection towards themselves and continue to grapple with the self-hatred that threatens to drown them.

Can Anest and Deian find a way to free themselves from the weight of normality and - together - realise that an entire sky of possibilities is waiting for them?

Adapted by the author, behind the sky was originally published in Welsh as tu ôl i’r awr, (Y Lolfa, 2020) and won the Welsh language Wales Book of the year Award in 2021.

About the author:

Megan Angharad Hunter is an author and screenwriter from Penygroes, Dyffryn Nantlle, in North Wales, now based in Cardiff. She studied Welsh and Philosophy at Cardiff University, graduating in 2022. During her studies, she became the youngest-ever winner of the overall Wales Book of the Year Award when her Welsh-language debut, tu ôl i’r awyr, won in 2021. behind the sky is an adaptation of that novel, and is Megan’s first published novel in her second language, English. Megan has also won the Tir na n-Og Award and an Iris Festival award, and has been shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Award twice in the children’s category, as well as for the YA Book Prize, for her co-authorship of The Five edited by Elgan Rhys.

Accessibility:

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