Novelist Kate Grenville talks to analyst Margot Waddell about internal and external landscapes, and her journeys through fiction and history.

Kate Grenville’s latest book, Searching for the Secret River, is published by Canongate this month. It tells the story of how Grenville came to write her novel The Secret River, one of the best-selling books of 2006. Who was Grenville’s great-great-great grandfather, Solomon Wiseman, the Thames boatman sent as a convict to Australia in 1806? Grenville pursues her ancestor from Sydney to London and back, hoping to understand his life.

Margot Waddell is a fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society and a consultant child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Tavistock Clinic.

Venue: The Institute of Psychoanalysis, 11a Shirland Road, London W9 (Google Maps link)

Nearest Tube: Maida Vale,Warwick Avenue

Tickets £12/£6 conc. Includes a glass of wine.

To book visit: www.thebloomsbury.com or tel: 020 7388 8822 (booking fee applies).

Website: www.connectingconversations.org

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