Next Book Club: TOMORROW 9th Dec 7:30 PM @ The Sharftesbury Tavern. A Spool of Blue Thread

edited December 2015 in StroudGreen Book Club
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446802503831_2181" class="msg-body inner undoreset" role="presentation" style="" tabindex="0"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446802503831_2579" class="email-wrapped"><div id="yiv0529418737"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446802503831_2726">For our December meeting we will be reading acclaimed American writer Anne Tyler's<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);">A Spool of Blue Thread</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"> </span>- </div><div><span style="">Sunday Times bestseller & shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446802503831_2725"><span style=""><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446802503831_2581">As it's Christmas we'll combine the evening with a meal so do let me know if you're coming in case I need to book a table. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446802503831_2724"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446802503831_2582"><span style="font-weight: bold;">It would be lovely to see some new faces!</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446802503831_2583"><span style=""></span><br><span style=""> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Location:</span> T</span>he Shaftesbury Tavern, 534 Hornsey Rd, N19 3QN </span></span><br><br></span></div><div><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="">Book description</span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446802503831_2585"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446802503831_2584" style="">'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon...' This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that summer's day in 1959. The whole family on the porch, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. From that porch we spool back through the generations, witnessing the events, secrets and unguarded moments that have come to define the family. From Red's father and mother, newly arrived in Baltimore in the 1920s, to Abby and Red's grandchildren carrying the family legacy boisterously into the twenty-first century - four generations of Whitshanks, their lives unfolding in and around the sprawling, lovingly worn Baltimore house that has always been their home.<br></span>(480 pages)<br><br>"One of her very best" (<i>Sunday Times</i>)<br><br>"Glorious" (<i>Independent</i>)<br><br>"May be her best yet, though, to be honest, this is what I always tend to say after reading the latest Anne Tyler. I’ve now read it twice, and I may well read it again" (Craig Brown <i>Mail on Sunday</i>)<br><br><img src="http://www.mumsnet.com/system/1/assets/files/000/022/225/22225/a85f9fff9/original/xSpool_of_blue_thread_325x500.jpg,q1435925031.pagespeed.ic.vNRttUrxbj.jpg"><br> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 90.0pt 72.0pt 90.0pt; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --></style><br></div></div></div></div>

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