CLASSIC BOOK CLUB:
So Long, See You Tomorrow – William Maxwell
Wednesday 23rd July – 7:15 for :7:30pm
This meeting will now take place in Madeleine’s Kitchen on Lavant Street – we are so grateful to Antonia, Kathryn and their team for making this happen.
In the quiet farmlands of Illinois, two lonely teenagers – bound by the burden of their rural lives – forge a delicate friendship. But when jealousy ignites between their farming families, it leads to unthinkable tragedy, and severs their bond forever. Fifty years later, haunted by the past, the narrator seeks to piece together those harrowing events and find redemption for a lifetime of regret.
BOOK CLUB:
Shy Creatures – Clare Chambers
Wednesday 17th September – 7:15 for :7:30pm
***Venue to be confirmed***
Croydon, 1964. Art therapist Helen Hansford is working in a psychiatric hospital, where she has been having passionate but precarious affair with her married colleague, the charismatic Dr Gil Rudden.
Helen’s structured life is upended when William Tapping – a silent, thirty-seven-year-old man with a beard down to his waist – arrives at the hospital. As Helen helps William express himself through art, she becomes increasingly entangled in his mysterious past.
Everyone is welcome – either let us know beforehand or just turn up on the night. If you would like to be added to the emailing list just go to our contacts page and put your details in with ‘Book Club’ in the Subject line. Our book club meetings cost £5 which includes a glass of wine.