Join Griffin Books to welcome debut author Susan Stokes-Chapman to Penarth for one of our classic cream tea events, as she discusses her new book Pandora.

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London, 1799. Dora Blake is an aspiring jewellery artist who lives with her uncle in what used to be her parents’ famed shop of antiquities. When a mysterious Greek vase is delivered, Dora is intrigued by her uncle’s suspicious behaviour and enlists the help of Edward Lawrence, a young antiquarian scholar. Edward sees the ancient vase as key to unlocking his academic future.

Dora sees it as a chance to restore the shop to its former glory, and to escape her nefarious uncle. But what Edward discovers about the vase has Dora questioning everything she has believed about her life, her family, and the world as she knows it. As Dora uncovers the truth she starts to realise that some mysteries are buried, and some doors are locked, for a reason.

Gorgeously atmospheric and deliciously page-turning, Pandora is a story of secrets and deception, love and fulfilment, fate and hope. 

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Susan Stokes-Chapman grew up in the historic Georgian city of Lichfield before moving on to spend four years in the coastal town of Aberystwyth, graduating with a BA in Education & English Literature and an MA in Creative Writing.

Her debut novel Pandora will be published in January 2022 by Harvill Secker. It is a loose reinterpretation of the Greek Myth Pandora’s Box.

Tickets: £17.50 including a SIGNED hardback copy of Pandora (RRP £14.99) and a delicious cream tea.