Reeta Chakrabarti – ‘Finding Belle’

We are delighted to be welcoming Reeta Chakrabarti to Hart’s Books to talk about her first novel Finding Belle. Chief presenter of BBC News, Reeta is well-known for her high-profile work as a journalist and political correspondent. This intimate event promises an opportunity to hear Reeta talk about her journey into creative writing and the stories within and behind her new book.

About Finding Belle

A lost child … When Mivvi is young, her mother Belle is a puzzle: beautiful, troubled, and, terrifyingly, increasingly disconnected from the world. A displaced mother … Belle came to England upon her marriage, a whirlwind romance from the beaches of Mombasa to the English suburbs. But far from friends and family, her life and love affair began to crumble. A family secret … As Mivvi grows up in the shadow of her mother’s illnesses and her father’s absences, she must reconnect the pieces that her mother scattered. Can she uncover the secrets clouding their past – and in doing so rewrite her own story? Travelling from the beaches of Mombasa to the suburbs of England and then on to the teeming streets of Kolkata, a powerful story of mothers and daughters, betrayal and madness and a child who must forge her own identity.