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Palmers Green & Southgate

Book Group 2

Status:Active, open to new members
Convener:
When: Monthly on Monday afternoons 1:45 pm-4:00 pm
1st Monday
Venue: Palmers Green Library

The group meets monthly, usually on the first Monday of the month except for Bank Holidays.
There will be no meeting in August.

The next meeting will be Monday 3rd November at 1.45 (for a 2pm start) in the Community Room, Palmers Green Library.

The book for discussion in November is:

The Correspondent by Virginia Evans

Throughout her life Sybil Van Antwerp has used letters to make sense of the world and her place in it. Most mornings around half past ten Sybil sits down to write letters—to her brother, to her best friend, to the president of the university who will not allow her to audit a class she desperately wants to take, to Joan Didion and Larry McMurtry to tell them what she thinks of their latest books, and to one person to whom she writes often yet never sends the letter.

Sybil expects her world to go on as it always has. A mother, grandmother, wife, divorcée, distinguished lawyer, she has lived a full life. But when letters from someone in her past force her to examine one of the most painful periods of her life, she realizes the letter she has been writing over the years needs to be read and that she cannot move forward until she finds it in her heart to offer forgiveness.

The book for discussion in December is:

All Adults Here by Emma Straub

When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days decades earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence?

Astrid's youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is pregnant yet struggling to give up her own adolescence. And her eldest seems to measure his adult life according to standards no one else shares. But who gets to decide, so many years later, which long-ago lapses were the ones that mattered? Who decides which apologies really count? It might be that only Astrid's thirteen-year-old granddaughter and her new friend really understand the courage it takes to tell the truth to the people you love the most.

Click to see Books read in the past

When the book is not available from the library, sources of secondhand books include:
1. abebooks (https://www.abhttps://pgs.u3asite.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Book-Choice-Jan-24.pdfebooks.co.uk.) around £2.80
2. Amazon marketplace - sometimes cheaper
3. The Red Cross book shop on Green Lanes in Palmers Green.

It is also possible to access audio books with your library card via www.libbyapp.com. To sign up press “yes” to Member. Library name “Enfield Consortium” Thomas Hardy House followed by Card Number and PIN Number

If you are interested in joining this book group please email the group convener, using the link at the top of this page.

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