South Manchester Book Group: Tender Is The Night

South Manchester Book Group

We're a friendly and open reading group, and we share a love of books and discussing them with other people. We meet every fortnight, but you don't have to come to them all. It's dead simple; choose a book you like the sound of, read it (or even part of it) beforehand and turn up with a few ideas and money for beer / wine / flirtinis. It's very informal, and we're quite a friendly bunch. We meet at a pub in Didsbury around 8.30 pm, and can usually be found on the table with the books and flirtinis.

We've become rather popular recently so unfortunately aren't accepting new members just at the moment. But please drop us a line on the Contact Us form and we'll add you to our mailing list.

Our reading list, past, present, and future, appears here and a short version of what we’re reading next is here.

Thursday, 8 August 2024

Tender Is The Night — F Scott Fitzgerald

Strange children should smile at each other and say, “Let's play”.

Rosemary Hoyt is a young actress in the south of France in the late 1920s, with a complicated relationship with the alluring American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant psychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband and doctor to Nicole, whose wealth pushed him into a glamorous lifestyle, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's decline.

This week's book is Tender Is The Night by F Scott Fitzgerald and we'll be meeting at Ye Olde Cocke on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury — contact us for details.