The Essex Library presents author/ musician Suzzy Roche, who will appear at Valley Regional High School Auditorium on Saturday Feb. 4 at 4 p.m. to talk about her new novel, Wayward Saints and sing some songs.

Roche was a founding member of the musical group The Roches, which performed for 20 years as a trio throughout Europe and the United States in a wide variety of venues, from its own sold-out show at Carnegie Hall to the concert halls of Europe and the street corners of New York City. The band appeared on The Tonight Show and The David Letterman Show and has sung with Philip Glass, Paul Simon, Laurie Anderson, The Indigo Girls, Loudon Wainwright, and Linda Ronstadt, just to name a few. After the Roches put the group on hiatus in 1997, Suzzy Roche returned later that year with her solo debut Holy Smokes and its 2000 follow-up, Songs from an Unmarried Housewife and Mother, Greenwich Village. She also appeared in the film Crossing Delancy with Amy Irving, and performs with theater ensembles like the Wooster Group.

Books will be available for signing and sale courtesy of Essex Books and the show is free and open to the public. Call the Essex Library at 860-767-1560 for more information or to register.