CLASSIC BOOK CLUB:
Howards End – E.M. Forster
Wednesday 2nd September, 7:15 for 7:30pm
The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly ever escape from those whom they love no longer.
We rich can ‘only connect’ is the idea at the heart of this book, a heartbreaking and provocative tale of three families at the beginning of the twentieth century: the rich Wilcoxes, the gentle, idealistic Schlegels and the lower-middle class Basts. As the Schlegel sisters try desperately to help the Basts and educate the close-minded Wilcoxes, the families are drawn together in love, lies and death.
Frequently cited as E.M. Forster’s finest work, Howards End brilliantly explores class warfare, conflict and the English character.
BOOK CLUB:
The Correspondent – Virginia Evans
Wednesday 23rd September, 7:15 for 7:30pm
Sybil Van Antwerp is seventy-three, slowly losing her sight and always writing letters….. To her children. Her favourite authors.
Her ex-sister-in-law. The journalist poking into her past. Her doctor.
Suitors. Kindly neighbours. The infuriating gardening club.
All receive Sybil’s witty, wise correspondence, rich with everyday concerns. But there is one letter that she has never sent. It concerns the darkest period of her life. To post it, Sybil must find forgiveness within herself. The hardest letter to write is the one you’d never dare to send.
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