September meeting was at Margaret's place. 8 of us were present - welcome back Moy, able to come for the first time this year, after illness. Pat R also present after 5 months travelling OS. Sue E, Maggie H, and Liz unable to attend this month. Thanks Margaret for a lovely afternoon, with yummy food and a wonderful sherry cake to end the feast.
The Elena Ferrante book, The Lost Daughter stimulated lots of discussion, though some of us wondered if we had read the right book, or enough books, to sample Ferrante's work. We would have liked to read one of the Neapolitan novels. But The Lost Daughter was billed as 'close to perfection' in the Andrew Reimer review and it certainly occupied us for a good hour. We found the narrator annoying but intensely interesting, fascinating, shocking even.
We look ages deciding on the next book, looking at several from the Booker shortlist, deciding finally on the Anne Tyler book, A Spool of Blue Thread, which will be at my place in November - the Christmas meeting.
Ros has offered to host the October meeting, so we will all meet at Bellamy Street for the Bill Clegg book, Did you ever have a family?
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