Hi ladies, the next meeting will be on Tuesday 22 November, at my home – Alison will kindly provide the refreshments though!  We will be discussing Smut: Two Unseemly Stories, by Alan Bennett.  There’s only 4 weeks until that meeting so I hope it’s not too challenging to find and read it in the timeframe (it’s very short)!

The meeting in December will be on 6th and will focus on A Christmas Carol – I have library copies for Tania / Georgina / Clare if you would like them?

See you all soon, M x

“The Shielding of Mrs Forbes” – Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better. And her own husband would be better if she were mourning him than living with him.

“The Greening of Mrs Donaldson” – Mrs Donaldson is a conventional middle-class woman beached on the shores of widowhood after a marriage that had been much like many others: happy to begin with, then satisfactory and finally dull. But when she decides to take in two lodgers passions that she never knew existed are aroused, and her mundane life becomes much more stimulating…