Hi ladies, the next meeting will be on Tuesday 24 January 2012, at 7.45pm, at Nicola Little’s.  We will be discussing The Help, by Katharyn Stockett, which I am very much looking forward to reading.

The meeting after that looks likely to be on 13 March – Nicola please could you choose the next book for us to read? I can resend the book list if you need it.

See you all soon, M x

“Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren’t trusted not to steal the silver…There’s Aibileen, raising her seventeenth white child and nursing the hurt caused by her own son’s tragic death; Minny, whose cooking is nearly as sassy as her tongue; and white Miss Skeeter, home from College, who wants to know why her beloved maid has disappeared. Skeeter, Aibileen and Minny. No one would believe they’d be friends; fewer still would tolerate it. But as each woman finds the courage to cross boundaries, they come to depend and rely upon one another. Each is in a search of a truth. And together they have an extraordinary story to tell…”