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Book Club: TONIGHT Monday, 26th January, 8pm, The Shaftesbury - The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters

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edited January 2015 in StroudGreen Book Club
<font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal;">Hello</span></font><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><br>Here are the details for the January meeting of the book club, which is everyone on this forum is welcome to come to:</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: normal;">When: Monday, 26th January, 8pm, </span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: normal;">Where: The Shaftesbury Tavern</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: normal;">Which book? The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters</span></font><br></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: normal;">It's both a love story and a crime drama, set in 1922 in Camberwell in an area that where middle-class Victorian villas are populated by members of the  'clerk classes' living in genteel poverty. The protagonists of the novel have to take in 'paying guests' ie lodgers... and it all starts from there.</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.63636302948px; line-height: normal;"><br></span></font></div><div><div id="books-entity-teaser" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 14px; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; line-height: 19px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="bucket" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 5px 0px;"><div class="mainContent" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 110px; margin-top: 5px;"><div id="outerAuthorBio" class="outerAuthorBio" style="box-sizing: border-box; z-index: 1; height: auto; overflow: hidden;"><div id="authorBio" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sarah Waters was born in Wales in 1966 and lives in London. Author of Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith and The Night Watch, her most recent book is The Little Stranger. All of her books have attracted prizes: she won a Betty Trask Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and was twice shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Fingersmith and The Night Watch were both shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange prizes, and Fingersmith won the CWA Ellis Peters Dagger Award for Historical Crime Fiction and the South Bank Show Award for Literature. Tipping the Velvet, Affinity and Fingersmith have all been adapted for television. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Little Stranger was a bestselling hardback and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.</div></div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both;"></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>In case anyone from our meeting tonight is interested, the book I really love reading from when I was a child is Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster.</div><div><br></div><div>See you in January!</div>
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