South Manchester Book Group: Jane Austen

South Manchester Book Group

We're a friendly and open South Manchester pub-based 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 and present, appears below. Our upcoming schedule of what we’re reading next is here.

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Persuasion — Jane Austen

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope ... I have loved none but you.

At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Her family moves to lower their expenses and reduce their debt by renting their home to an Admiral and his wife, whose brother, Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank.

Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth ...