The Kent House Series is a themed portfolio of contemporary author talks presented monthly each season with acclaimed authors and inspiring interviewers.

Join us on 11th June as Hadley Freeman interviews author and biographer Anne Sebba, about her most recent book, The Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz.

Hadley Freeman is a former Guardian columnist and features writer. She now writes columns about feminism, the arts, politics and anything else that takes her fancy for The Sunday Times. She also interviews celebrities, authors and anyone with an interesting story.

About the book:​

Published to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps, one of the UK’s most distinguished biographers tells the extraordinary story of the fifty women captives at Auschwitz-Birkenau who were assembled to play marching music for the other inmates and forced labourers as they left each morning, as well as for weekly concerts given to their Nazi captors.

​From Alma Rosé, the orchestra’s main conductor, niece of Gustav Mahler and a formidable pre-war celebrity violinist, to Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, its teenage cellist and last surviving member, Sebba has drawn on meticulous archival research and exclusive first-hand accounts to tell the full and astonishing story of the orchestra, its members and the response of other prisoners for the very first time.

Cost: £20.00 (includes a welcome drink) – payable separately. The AL will contact members who book a ticket below for payment. Arrive at 7:00pm for 7:30pm start.