historical fiction

Blackpool Libraries and Blackpool Social Club present author Claire McGlasson in conversation on 14th July. McGlasson will be discussing a historical novel about the disgraced Rector of Stiffkey and his Blackpool sideshows in the 1930s. Margaret Finch has just begun work in a position that relies on her discretion and powers of observation – documenting the behaviour of working-class holiday makers in Blackpool in the interwar period. Harold Davidson, the disgraced Rector of Stiffkey, is the subject of a national scandal and has also arrived in the seaside town to win over the masses by appearing in its famous sideshows.…