Next book club meeting will take place on 8pm on the 7th October at The Old Dairy.<div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal;">The book we have chosen this month is THe Cuckoo's Calling by JK Rowling - the one she wrote as 'Robert Galbraith'.</div><div style="font-weight: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-weight: normal;">Description from Amazon:</div><div><p style="font-weight: normal; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When a troubled model falls to her death from a snow-covered Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts, and calls in private investigator Cormoran Strike to look into the case.</p><p style="font-weight: normal; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="font-weight: normal; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Strike is a war veteran - wounded both physically and psychologically - and his life is in disarray. The case gives him a financial lifeline, but it comes at a personal cost: the more he delves into the young model's complex world, the darker things get - and the closer he gets to terrible danger . . .</p><p style="font-weight: normal; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></p><p style="font-weight: normal; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>A gripping, elegant mystery steeped in the atmosphere of London - from the hushed streets of Mayfair to the backstreet pubs of the East End to the bustle of Soho - <i>The Cuckoo's Calling</i> is a remarkable book. Introducing Cormoran Strike, this is the acclaimed first crime novel by J.K. Rowling, writing under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.</b></p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></p><p style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Thoughts please on whether JK was genuinely outed or was it a deliberate publicity stunt?</p></div>
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