“Who you get, and how it works out — there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching
consequences of your conscious choice of a mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle
it if it turns out unhappily.”
This week's book is Enduring Love by Ian McEwan and we'll not be meeting at The Didsbury on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury — contact us for details.
“At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then
I would remember that it had already happened.”
This week's book is The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan and we'll be not meeting at The Didsbury on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury — contact us for details.
On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and
plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house.
Watching her too is Robbie Turner who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of
all three will have been changed for ever, as Briony commits a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to
atone.
This week's book is Atonement by Ian McEwan and we'll be meeting at Ye Olde Cocke on Wilmslow Road in Didsbury — contact us for details.
