Katharine Norbury in conversation with Jackie Kay

Published: Oct. 24, 2016, 4:52 p.m.

b"Film editor Katharine Norbury's bestselling debut, 'The Fish Ladder, is one of those books that is hard to categorise. Part memoir, nature study, meditation on family and part travelogue, it tells how she seeks consolation on the death of a child by following the Humber to its source but pursues a parallel metaphorical quest for the woman who gave her up at birth. Katharine will be in conversation with Jackie Kay, whose birth mother also gave her up for adoption"