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The life and career of the late Booker-prize winning author of Possession, A S Byatt, will be celebrated at a memorial service in London this month.
Family, friends and colleagues of Byatt will gather for the service on Tuesday (10th September) at St James’ Church in Piccadilly, London, which will feature personal tributes alongside readings from her work.
Fellow authors, media, academics and others who championed her work have also been invited. The service will begin at 12:30pm and the family have asked for no floral tributes but for donations to be made to the Royal Trinity Hospice.
A limited number of free tickets for members of the public wanting to attend the celebration are available on Eventbrite on a first-come, first-served basis.
The author died in November aged 87. Byatt’s first novel The Shadow of the Sun was published by Chatto in 1964. Among her 23 other novels and works of criticism is the sequence known as the Frederica Quartet, including the Booker Prize-winning Possession (1990) and The Children’s Book (2009), shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.