Book Club
On Monday afternoons from 4pm to 5:45 p.m. Leeds Combined Arts provide a Book Readers Group at The HEART Centre, Headingley.
This is made up of a small group of people who enjoy reading aloud. All reading is done within the 2 hour session which includes a 15 minute break for refreshments. All who wish, have a turn to read a chapter aloud, however members are also welcome to come along and listen if they do not wish to read.
Next Book: ‘The Bequest’ by Victoria Petrie Hay.
Commences Monday 20th February
Ousted from her high-flying city
job and trying to recover from a broken love affair, Emma finds some
mysterious oddments in the attic of her parents’ house: a strangely
vindictive will leaving a fortune to a cat’s home, some old photograph
albums, a bundle of letters and cards hinting at a lingering guilt. Emma
decides to investigate these skeletons in her family’s cupboard. The
trail leads to her delightfully eccentric Grandma’s cottage in Dorset,
to people in Anglesey who were once on opposite sides of the green baize
door, to Guernsey in the Channel Islands where the cats, the
beneficiaries of the will, live in luxury. The journeys also lead her
back in time to the fringes of the Happy Valley set and an encounter
with Royalty in 1920’s Kenya, to Anglo-Welsh society through the
thirties and into war, to her grandmother’s and mother’s childhood and
finally – and most fatefully – to a bizarre encounter with a motorcycle
messenger in 1990’s London.
“Well crafted and beautifully
written” – Today.
‘Charming’ – The Times.
“Impeccably Pilcherish
in both style and content” – Sunday Telegraph.
Entrance £1
includes tea/coffee and biscuits.