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This month's book is The Salt Path, by Raynor Winn. This uplifting memoir, about a couple who embark on a long coastal walk after becoming homeless, was shortlisted for the 2018 Costa biography award.
The book group meets on the second Wednesday of each month, and is open to everyone, whether you've read the book or not.
Event Date | 08/01/2020 7:15 pm |
Event End Date | 08/01/2020 8:15 pm |
Capacity | Unlimited |
Individual Price | pay as you like |
This month's book is I Capture the Castle, by Dodie Smith. Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Her journal records her life with her beautiful, bored sister, Rose, her fading glamorous stepmother, Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her eccentric novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block. However, all their lives are turned upside down when the American heirs to the castle arrive and Cassandra finds herself falling in love for the first time.
The group is from 7.15-815. Everyone is welcome, whether you've read this book or not.
Event Date | 12/02/2020 7:15 pm |
Event End Date | 12/02/2020 8:15 pm |
Capacity | Unlimited |
Individual Price | pay as you like |
This month's book is Beloved, by Toni Morrison. It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love. Told with heart-stopping clarity, melding horror and beauty, Beloved is Toni Morrison’s enduring masterpiece.
Everyone is welcome, whether you've read the book or not.
Event Date | 11/03/2020 7:15 pm |
Event End Date | 11/03/2020 8:15 pm |
Capacity | Unlimited |
Individual Price | pay as you like |
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