“I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they
have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. And
this is one: I'm going to tell it — but take care not to smile at any part of it.”
This week's book is Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and we'll be meeting at The Didsbury on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury — contact us for details.
“... the secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you
have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably. They
don’t deceive you with thrills and trick endings. They don’t surprise you with the unforeseen. They
are as familiar as the house you live in. Or the smell of your lover’s skin. You know how they end,
yet you listen as though you don’t. In the way that although you know that one day you will die, you
live as though you won’t. In the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who
doesn’t. And yet you want to know again.
That is their mystery and their magic.”
This week's book is The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy and we'll be meeting at The Didsbury on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury — contact us for details.