Members of the book group can get a discount of 20% on all Blue Lounge Book Group titles at Borders Teesside with their membership. Middlesbrough Libraries also have copies of the books
The Good Father, Marion Husband
Tues 27 May 2008 6.30pm
When Peter Wright’s father dies he leaves his entire fortune to Peter’s best friend Jack. Over a few weeks in the summer of 1959 the consequences of the old man’s legacy seriously affect three men s lives, Jack, who has brought up his three children alone since his wife was killed, Wright’s solicitor Harry, who is trying to rebuild his relationship with his estranged son Guy, and Peter himself, whose friendship with Jack is threatened by his father’s death and the terrible secrets he has kept since his return from the Japanese POW camps. The Good Father explores the nature of fatherhood and the bonds between fathers and their children in a gripping story of love, betrayal and adultery.
Buy this book from Amazon or better yet, buy it from your local independent bookshop.
The Room of Lost Things, Stella Duffy
Tues 24 June 2008 6.30pm
Under his railway arch in Loughborough Junction, South London, Robert Sutton is taking leave of a lifetime of hard work. His dry-cleaning shop lies at the heart of a lively community, a fixed point in a changing world. And, as he explains to his successor, young East Londoner Akeel, it is also the resting place for the contents of his customers’ pockets - and for their secrets and lies. As he helps Akeel to make a new life out of his old one, Robert also hands on all he knows of his world: the dirty dip of the Thames; the parks, rare green oases in a desert of high-rises and decaying mansion blocks; and the varied lives that converge at the junction. Humming with life, packed tight with detail, The Room of Lost Things is a hymn of love to a great and overflowing city, and a profoundly human story that holds us in its grip from the first sentence until the last.
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Books we’ve read
March, 2008 - Richard Milward - Apples
April, 2008 - Paul Magrs - Something Borrowed
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