By Elizabeth Noble. It says on the cover.... "Where the book ends, the stories begin...."
A clever device, to use a reading group, because it gives a fairly wide spread set of characters, and they talk about the book they have read each month over the period of one year. Then thy talk about themselves and their lives. Over the course of the year, the group of strangers become friends.
A quwaation at the back of the book asks "is this reading group in the book anything like the reading group you belong to?" In my own case the answer is "No". The group in the book are all women "in the breeding season of life" caught up in running a home, kids, holding down a job, and or husband. They meet in each others houses and each month the book is chosed by a different member.
The group I belong to are all grannies! Our talk is round pills, ailments, cooking, writing stuff, reading stuff, and one ladies repeated chip pan fires! My group too has just completed its first year and is sponsored through our local library, who make the book selections. We are given a choice and an alternative, but the ones we ask for never seem to come!
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