EUNIC Ireland's European Book Club - Sara Baume, Spill Simmer Falter Wither

Join Culture Ireland on Thursday 7th July 2022 for a discussion with Sara Baume, on her award winning book Spill Simmer Falter Wither. Moderated by RTE’s Zbyszek Zalinski, this event marks the finale of EUNIC Ireland’s European Book Club 2022.

About the Event

EUNIC (European Union National Institutes for Culture) Ireland's European Book Club is a series of monthly discussions on a bestselling novel and is held on the first Thursday of the month (January – July 2022) at 6pm with a live discussion with the author of the selected novel.

The final European Book Club in this series will be hosted by Culture Ireland, moderated by Zbyszek Zalinski, and focuses on the author Sara Baume and her debut novel Spill Simmer Falter Wither (2015).

About the Book

Two misfits – one an eccentric loner and the other a one-eyed dog – forge an unlikely relationship. Both are accustomed to being alone, unloved, outcast – and quickly find in each other a strange companionship of sorts. But as their friendship grows, they are driven away by a community that perceives menace where there is only mishap.

Spill Simmer Falter Wither is a wholly different kind of love story, a devastating portrait of loneliness, loss and friendship that spans the four seasons echoed in the novel’s title. Written with tremendous empathy and insight, Baume’s debut captures the incremental destructive essence of loneliness, and confirms the talent so emphatically acknowledged by the Davy Byrnes Award jury. The novel was also shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award, longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, longlisted for the Warwick Prize and winner of the Rooney Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.

About the Author

Sara Baume was born in Lancashire and grew up in County Cork. She studied fine art and creative writing and her short fiction has been published in journals such as The Stinging Fly magazine and the Dublin Review. She is based in West Cork where she works also as a visual artist.

Sara Baume’s debut novel, Spill Simmer Falter Wither, won the Rooney Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and has been widely translated. Her second novel, A Line Made by Walking, was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize and her first non-fiction book, handiwork, was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize. Her third novel, Seven Steeples, was published in spring 2022.

EUNIC Ireland’s European Book Club

EUNIC Ireland’s European Book Club takes place once a month (January – July 2022) with different authors from all over Europe. The event will be recorded and made available on Culture Ireland's YouTube Channel for a limited period.

EUNIC Ireland’s European Book Club is supported by the EUNIC organizations in Ireland. The purpose of EUNIC is to create a lasting partnership and network between the participating institutions in order to enhance and promote cultural diversity and understanding between European societies, as well as to strengthen international dialogue and cooperation with countries outside Europe. For further details on EUNIC Ireland please visit our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/EUNICireland/ .