Our Book Club usually meet on a Monday in the Dunelm Cafe at 10.30am to discuss the chosen book.

We meet next on 25th March. The chosen book is ‘The Guilty One’ by Lisa Ballantyne.  Email for details if you would like to join us.

Everyone is welcome to this informal club which has been running for over 8 years with five regular members. Books are mainly new, but we also have discussed some classics. We discuss what we thought of the chosen book and this often leads on to other topics. We are a mixed group of people, some from the Church, some from the local community who all enjoy reading and discussion.

If you’d like to purchase books please visit Easy Fundraising so that the church can get some commission without you paying anything different.

The last book we read was:

Clock Dance by Anne Tyler

This novel is Willa’s life from her childhood. She had a solid father but a wispy mother. She and her sister are chalk and cheese. We follow her as a student, her marriage to Derek and then as a mother to Sean and Ian. Derek’s death in road rage was his fault. She soldiered on.

After some years she married Peter a selfish man, a lawyer. It’s a different life but is she fulfilled?

She receives a call of help, goes from Arizona to Baltimore with her husband when Sean’s ex-partner Denise, who is has never met, is shot in the leg. She cares for Cheryl the nine-year old daughter by a previous liaison who is delighted to have a ‘grandmother’. She gets to know the neighbours and enjoys being needed. Peter is not enjoying this experience and goes home. Willa stays until no longer needed.

We quite enjoyed this very easy read.