Book clubs in Somerset

Very intense and thought provoking book. Barbara Kingsolver cleverly updates Charles Dickens classic David Copperfield and her modern social criticism echos the same issues raised by Dickens. Her hard hitting account of the opioid epidemic in the Appalachia and its impact on the main character Damon Fields, nicknamed Demon Copperhead, is often shocking and heart breaking Once I started reading it I couldn’t put it down.

Its the very fist of his collection and he actually threw it in the trash when his wife pulled it out, read it and convinced him to submit it :-)

I felt seen by the internal monologue of the main character. An Important read for neurodivergent women.

Interesting view of attitudes and expectations in modern Nigeria . Humourous and compassionate character studies with race and the sorrows and adventures of immigration a vcentral theme.

First book in a quartet. Epic Fantasy with the usual tropes but loved every minute of it

This was book about a “distressed gentlewoman” who writes a book for money and is then taken aback by the results was written in the 1930’s. The author is an astute observer of people and manners with a very light touch. It is very funny and I love the period detail as well as the humour.