Venue: Swiss Cottage Library

Date: Sunday 11 January 2009

David Almond talked to child psychotherapist Viviane Green about the ways in which his fiction explores 'the universal in the particular', reflecting his interest in the physical world and the imaginative world of childhood. David also talked about the way in which all his work, including Skellig, explores the transformative/healing powers of the imagination.

David Almond is known worldwide as the author of Skellig, Clay, Jackdaw Summer and many other novels, stories and plays. His work is translated in to 30 languages, is widely adapted for stage and screen and he has won a string of major awards including the Carnegie Medal and two Whitbreads. Skellig became an opera in 2008 and a film version will premiere in 2009.

Viviane Green is an adult and child and adolescent psychotherapist in private practice. She is Head of Clinical Training at the Anna Freud Centre and has developed training programmes in Europe and South America. She is published widely including editing Emotional Development in Psychoanalysis, Attachment Theory and Neuroscience: Creating Connections.

Listen to the conversation and the audience Q and A session