 BAWDESWELL
BOOK CLUB
Held in the Old Workhouse Bar on
the first Thursday of the month at 7.30pm.
We have chosen for May - " Small Island " by Andrea Levy
which also
happens to be the choice of the Radio 4 Book Club.
Happy Reading !
Last month’s choices:
Eight Feet in the Andes by Dervia Murphy
The
eight feet of the title referred to Dervla Murphy, her nine-year-old daughter
Rachel and Juana, an elegant mule, who together clambered the length of Peru,
from Cajamarca near the border with Ecuador, to Cuzco, the ancient Inca
capital, over 1300 miles to the south. With only the most basic necessities
to sustain them and spending most of their time above 10,000 feet, their
journey was marked by extreme discomfort, occasional danger and even the
temporary loss of Juana over a precipice. Yet mother and daughter, a
formidable duo, were unflagging in their sympathetic response to the perilous
beauty and impoverished people of the Andes.
Enduring Love
by Ian McEwan
One
windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organized life was
shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended
in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Rose,
something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an
obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Rose's beloved
scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him
to the brink of murder and madness.
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A Message from Matthew Beckett: By the time you get to read this letter
I should probably be resident in South Africa. This is just an open thank-you to everyone who has used
and worked at the Old Workhouse Bar over the last 3 ½ years.
There have been some good memories and it is with some regret I
leave Bawdeswell, but am excited about a new life in South Africa, nearer my
family and under the sun.
Matthew Beckett
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