The County Club Reading Group

Next Meeting: Friday 21st November

Meet in the bar from 6pm to collect a drink, discussion in the Wodehouse upstairs from 6.15pm

The club will be open for bar snacks.

To make a booking please email info@thecountyclub.co.uk

The inaugural meeting of the Reading Group met on 28th August and it was agreed to have a relaxed approach welcoming anyone available and interested in the books chosen to join the next meeting. Members will be kept informed of meeting dates and books chosen for discussion on the Club Website and through the Club Newsletter.

The book that has been chosen is:

Shuggie Baine – Douglas Stuart

It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from life, dreaming of greater things. But Agnes is abandoned by her philandering husband, and as she descends deeper into drink, the children try their best to save her, yet one by one they must abandon her to save themselves. It is her son Shuggie who holds out hope the longest. Shuggie is different, he is clearly no’ right. But Shuggie believes that if he tries his hardest, he can be normal like the other boys and help his mother escape this hopeless place.

Do come along and bring a recommendation for a book you think would stimulate an interesting discussion.

The following two novels have been suggested as potential options for the New Year:

William Boyd- Gabriel’s Moon 

Ian McEwan’s – What We Can Know