Bumper edition of Bertie’s Book Group newsletter
Source: The King’s Fund Library
This newsletter combines all the discussions from the November and December book group meetings and looks ahead to the books we’ll be reading in 2023.
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Bertie’s book group 2020
This month, the online book group will be talking about The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer. As a young boy, Matthew loses his older brother while on a family holiday. Now nineteen, this is the story of how he deals with this loss and his own mental illness.
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Bertie’s book group 2020
Join the King’s Fund for their online book group in July when readers will be discussing So lucky by Nicola Griffith. The novel follows Mara Tagarelli who discovers in the space of a week that her wife is leaving her and that she has been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The novel is an exploration of identity, disability and ableism.
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Bertie’s book group 2020
The King’s Fund continues with online book group discussions in June, this time reading Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt. Set in 1964 the novel explores depression through the experiences of Esther, a widowed librarian, and Winston Churchill, who is at the end of his career, days before his retirement.
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Bertie’s book group
2020 is the international year of the nurse and midwife. To mark this, the book group will be discussing Emma Donoghue’s novel, The Wonder.
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