Home Fire — Kamila Shamsie

For girls, becoming women was inevitability; for boys, becoming men was ambition.

After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London — or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew.

This week's book is Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie and we'll be meeting at Ye Olde Cocke on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury — contact us for details.

Please note change of book.  You may wish to also read Sophocles' Antigone on which Home Fire is based.

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.