Hi ladies!

Lovely meeting nearly a fortnight ago!  Thank you to Nic for hosting.  We were very nearly a “full-house”, so we missed you Georgina, but of course, fully understand you are a little tired!  However, we welcome our new member, Wenke, who brings our membership to 11 ladies.

The next meeting will be on Tuesday 13 March, 7.45pm, at my house – but Clare will be hosting.   We will be discussing Year of Wonders, by Geraldine Brookes. 

The book to be read after that will be When God Was A Rabbit, by Sarah Winman and Clare has the ‘honour’ of choosing the title we read after that.  Clare please let me know if you need me to email the current book list and don’t forget ladies you can give me titles to add to it at any time. 

See you all soon, M x

“A young woman’s struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly struck a small Derbyshire village. In 1666, plague swept through London, driving the King and his court to Oxford, and Samuel Pepys to Greenwich, in an attempt to escape contagion. The north of England remained untouched until, in a small community of leadminers and hill farmers, a bolt of cloth arrived from the capital. The tailor who cut the cloth had no way of knowing that the damp fabric carried with it bubonic infection. So begins the Year of Wonders, in which a Pennine village of 350 souls confronts a scourge beyond remedy or understanding. Desperate, the villagers turn to sorcery, herb lore, and murderous witch-hunting. Then, led by a young and charismatic preacher, they elect to isolate themselves in a fatal quarantine. The story is told through the eyes of Anna Frith who, at only 18, must contend with the death of her family, the disintegration of her society, and the lure of a dangerous and illicit attraction. Geraldine Brooks’s novel explores love and learning, fear and fanaticism, and the struggle of 17th century science and religion to deal with a seemingly diabolical pestilence. ‘Year of Wonders’ is also an eloquent memorial to the real-life Derbyshire villagers who chose to suffer alone during England’s last great plague.”