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Our Reading Group

We are a group of friends who love to read. We get together over breakfast once a month to talk about a book that we've all read. Sometimes we agree, sometimes we disagree, but we usually have a lively discussion, whether it's about the book or the latest gossip.

Last month's book

Last month we read The Birthday Present by Barbara Vine. Most of us enjoyed this readable thriller although none of the characters were sympathetic or likeable. We were also a bit disappointed with the ending which seemed to tie off loose ends too nicely.

This month's book

This month we are reading The Mistress's Daughter by A M Homes. The next meeting is at Sarah's house on 17th June 2009 at 8pm.

"The right book annihilates time."

HOLBROOK JACKSON,
The Anatomy of Bibliomania
(1930)

THE MISTRESS'S DAUGHTER
by
A M Homes

On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Her birth parents were a twenty-two year old woman and an older married man with whom she was having an affair. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to correspond; her biological father contacted her soon after. These two individuals and their effect on the adult Homes are strange and unexpected, and the story spirals into something utterly raw and hilarious, heartbreaking and absurd. Along the way, Homes describes the clash between her childhood fantasies of her birth parents and the disappointing reality.

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