In conversation & Book Signing
Love as Strong as Death: Ravilious, The Pilot and the Missing Aircraft
Join author Melody Foreman and Carol Lockwood for an in-conversation event with publisher Steve Darlow about Melody's new non-fiction book, Love As Strong As Death: Ravilious, The Pilot & The Missing Aircraft.
Join author Melody Foreman and Carol Lockwood for an in-conversation event with publisher Steve Darlow about Melody's new non-fiction book, Love As Strong As Death: Ravilious, The Pilot & The Missing Aircraft (Available to buy in the gallery and online)
In Love as Strong as Death, Melody Foreman uncovers the story of two remarkable men – Flight Lieutenant Alfred ‘Ginge’ Culver DFM and Official War Artist Eric Ravilious – whose fates were sealed when their aircraft disappeared in the Second World War.
At once an intimate family history and a moving act of remembrance, this book honours their courage, celebrates their art and service, and pays tribute to a generation of children who never knew their fathers.
Steve Darlow of Fighting High Books hosts the conversation which will take place in the cinema, followed by audience questions and a book signing.
The conversation focuses will include Ravilious’s interest in the northern hemisphere (Iceland, Scotland, Antarctica) and Flight Lieutenant Alfred ‘Ginge’ Culver’s logbook, newly on display in The Ravilious Collection, lent by Carol Lockwood.
Melody Foreman
Melody is a best selling author and a journalist with experience in newspapers and television. She is also an accredited lecturer at the Art Society and specialises in cultural and social history and topics relating to Art & War including cinema. She is also a tour guide at a Jacobean House in East Kent and co-founder of The Art of Calm. Her latest book Love As Strong As Death, Ravilious, The Pilot & The Missing Aircraft, is published by Fighting High Books.
Carol Lockwood
Carol Lockwood is the daughter of RAF Flight Lieutenant Alfred "Ginge" Culver DFM. In 2014, she discovered through her father's logbook that Eric Ravilious was a passenger on the same aircraft as her father, which disappeared in 1942. This has taken her on an amazing journey, culminating in Melody Foreman's book.
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