Book Club

Our Book Club this year has been very successful and we have read a number of different books all suggested by the Group. This encourages us to read different authors that we have not read before and discuss them at our friendly meetings. So if you have read a good book recently and would like to share it please come along and let us know.

Our first meetings for 2018 will be on:

Monday 8th January at 11 a.m. off site and at our new agreed .me for the winter months. Refreshments. Cost £1. (See details below)

Monday 5th February at 11 a.m. off site Please contact me for more details and the venue

 Our choices for January are:

January 2018 - Book Club choices
We will be reading:

The Nutshell by Ian McEwan the critically acclaimed writer of 17 books including Saturday and On Chesil Beach and Atonement.
Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home – a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse – but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb.

The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls 

The true memoir of the journey she took from the dusty mining towns of the American Southwest, to an antique filled apartment on Park Avenue. The book tells how she escaped to New York with her older sister at just seventeen. Her younger siblings followed later. After pursuing the education and civilisation her parents sought to escape, she eventually succeeds in her quest for the 'mundane, middle class existence' she had always craved. In her apartment, overlooked by 'a portrait of someone
else's ancestor' she recounts poignant remembered images of star watching with her father, with recollections of a chaotic, disturbing life with her parents.

FEBRUARY Choice 2018 

The Throwaway Children by Diney Costeloe 

Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a violent bully called Jimmy Randall and has a baby boy by him. Under pressure from her new husband, she is persuaded to send the girls to an orphanage – not knowing that the papers she has signed will entitle them to do what they like with the children. And it is not long before the powers that be decide to send a consignment of orphans to their sister institution in Australia. Among them – without their family's consent or knowledge – are Rita and Rosie, the throwaway children.