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READING GROUP
At each meeting we have an informal discussion about the latest book (they becomes much more informal as the evening progresses – due to the consumption of wine and nibbles!). These discussions are lively and thought-provoking. Books are provided via Crosby Library's reading group list. We meet every six weeks, on a Tuesday evening. If you would like to join us, please give Pauline a ring on 928 5625, you will be made very welcome.
We shall be meeting on *Tuesday 20^thNovember* when we will be discussing *“The Girl You Left Behind” by Jojo Moyes.* In 1916 French artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his wife Sophie and goes to fight at the Front. When her town falls into German hands, Edouard’s portrait of Sophie draws the eye of the new Kommandant. As his obsession deepens, she will risk everything – her family, reputation and life – in the hope of seeing Edouard again. Nearly a century later, Sophie’s portrait is given to Liv by her young husband shortly before his sudden death. Its beauty speaks of their short life together, but when the painting’s dark and passion-torn history is revealed, the first spark of new love Liv has felt is threatened.
The books we have read so far are: The Island by Victoria Hislop Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris The Divide by Nicholas Evans Restless by William Boyd The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini The Piano Teacher by Janice Y K Lee Too Close to Home by Harlen Coben Past Imperfect by Julian Fellowes Summer School by Domenica de Rosa The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Before the Storm by Judith Lennox The Message by Lance Richardson Under This Unbroken Skyby Shandi Mitchell For One More Day by Mitch Albom The Winter Vaults by Anne Michaels The First Apostle by James Becker The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruizafon	The Visible World by Mark Slouka The Ghost, by Robert Harris Resistance by Owen Sheers No Time for Goodbye by Linwood Barclay A Small Part of History by Peggy Elliott The Outcast by Sadie Jones A Carrion Death by Michael Stanley Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire A Secret Alchemy by Emma Darwin Septembers of Shiraz by Hanna Weg Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Mouse proof Kitchen by Saira Shah If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor The Naming of Eliza Quinn by Carol Birch God's Own Country by Ross Raisin When the Cage Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Whispering Shadows by Jan-Philipp Senkdker
Witness the Night by Kishwar Desai You're Next by Greg Hurwitz The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice Telling Tales by Patience Agbabi Goodnight Beautiful by Dorothy Koomson The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer The Hollow by Agatha Christie Dancing in the Dark by Maureen Lee The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal	Noah's Compass by Anne Tyler Sister by Rosamund Lupton The Curious Incident of the Dog in The Night-time by Mark Haddon Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada The Other Hand by Chris Cleave The Water Horse by Julia Gregson Dominion by C J Sansom Us by David Nicholls Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers