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- Tickets £10
- Times 3pm
- Running time 45 – 60 minutes
- Venue Old Custom House, Common Quay, Ipswich, IP4 1BY
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Join our wonderful friend and patron Frances Quinn as she lifts the lid on her fourth novel The Scandalous Ladies Football Club.
Please note: this event will be held at Custom House (Key Street, Ipswich IP4 1BZ).
It’s 1897 and Minnie Newton, a 28 year old schoolteacher and women’s rights advocate has a passion for football. But this is Victorian society, and football is a men’s game. Isn’t it? Join us to hear more from an astonishing writer of historical fiction, and find out why it was so important to Frances to tell this story.
Hosted by Emma Lightfoot.
The New Wolsey Theatre is acting as a ticket agent for the Ipswich Book Festival, for more information about the festival check out their website by clicking the Ipswich Book Festival icon below.
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Venue: Old Custom House, Common Quay, Ipswich, IP4 1BY.
Read more on the New Wolsey Theatre website
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Old Custom House
Venue address: Common Quay, Ipswich, IP4 1BY
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