The Famished Lover Reading
With The Famished Lover, Ottawa's Alan Cumyn has written an extraordinary novel about the nature of love and longing.
Ramsay Crome is a WW1 veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress, long before the term was coined. Married to the conservative Lillian, he is haunted by the memory of another. An artist who sees and experiences female beauty in a deeply profound way, book explores Crome's search for nourishment - physical, emotional and sexual.
So come and listen in the backroom of The Ironworks Pub.