{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/625af2f74e4ecc0012102f4e/677302946768fc4271bb3dc5?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Bookable Space with Sharon Tyers","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/625af2f74e4ecc0012102f4e/1735590015165-43a68f0b-697e-46b4-8e2f-8de88ee1b0f4.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Bookable Space is a reading podcast that introduces readers to books we may have missed the first time around. In this episode of Bookable Space, Yvonne Battle-Felton, author of Curdle Creek, is joined by Sharon Tyers. Sharon reads to us from <em>Linen and Rooks.</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong>About the book:</strong></p><p><em>Linen and Rooks</em> is set in 1830’s Denbigh, North Wales at the time when cholera visited twice. The Bleachworks where the linen was whitened just outside the town is long gone but&nbsp;rooks still circle the town and in this story a white rook visits and leaves carrying a child.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>About the author:</strong></p><p>Sharon Tyers is a retired English teacher who self -published her first book, <em>Linen and Rooks</em>, in 2022 and is now working on a memoir of her mum’s life as a sock linker in Leicester. She gives talks on creative writing skills in libraries and galleries.</p><p><br></p><p>One of the bookstores where you'll find <em>Linen and Rooks</em> <a href=\"https://www.orielglasfryn.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.orielglasfryn.com/</a></p>","author_name":"Yvonne Battle-Felton"}