BOOK CLUB:
The Correspondent – Virginia Evans
Wednesday 23rd September, 7:15 for 7:30pm
Sybil Van Antwerp is seventy-three, slowly losing her sight and always writing letters….. To her children. Her favourite authors.
Her ex-sister-in-law. The journalist poking into her past. Her doctor.
Suitors. Kindly neighbours. The infuriating gardening club.
All receive Sybil’s witty, wise correspondence, rich with everyday concerns. But there is one letter that she has never sent. It concerns the darkest period of her life. To post it, Sybil must find forgiveness within herself. The hardest letter to write is the one you’d never dare to send.
CLASSIC BOOK CLUB:
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Wednesday 21st October, 7:15 for 7:30pm
A tale of sin, punishment and atonement, The Scarlet Letter exposes the moral rigidity of a 17th-Century Puritan New England community when faced with the illegitimate child of a young mother. Regarded as the first real heroine of American fiction, it is Hester Prynne’s strength of character that resonates with the reader when her harsh sentence is cast.
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