Caroline was a supurb host at our meeting this month. We discussed the book According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge. Beryl Bainbridge investigates the darker, melancholic side to the character of Dr Samuel Johnson, the great lexicographer. There are several narrators, including Queeney, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Thrale, Johnson's close friends. Includes excerpts from actual letters and journal writings.
The discussion was lively, covering a lot of the period information that filled out the story more for those who found it a difficult read.
Also discussed were some book read by members during hte previous weeks.
Diana and Freda
- Anticipation by Tanya Moir
Jackie
- The invention of wings by Sue Monk Kidd
Denise
- 100 year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
- Longbourn by Jo Baker
Discussed further were
- Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
- The War That Ended Peace: The Road To 1914 also by Margaret MacMillan
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