The Enchanted April
Elizabeth von Arnim
Great turn out this month, and a very lively meeting.
Very mixed opinions on this months book.
Easy to read, well described characters, a happy, dreamy, magical book, full of flowers, sunshine and emotion....is one description I have stolen from amazon that seems to sum it up.
Scores ranged from 4 up to 8 with an average of 6.25, so very good.
The Pitches for this months book were as follows.
- Helen - Instructions for a heatwave by Maggie O`Farrell
- Jon - 131 By Julian Cope
- Val - The vanishing act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O`Farrell
- Ivan - I am Pilgrim by Terry Haye
The winning pitch was Marie with a book written by her friend Richard Smyth.
No pressure to impress us there then Marie!
The book is Wild Ink by Richard Smyth.
Heres a short synopsis from the publishers, Dead Ink
Wild Ink is a blackly comic story of friendship and envy, love and memory, booze and uproar, secrets and scandal. Albert Chaliapin is dead – or at least, he feels like he ought to be. He lives in a world occupied only by the ghosts of his former life (and his nurse, who can’t even get his name right). Then, one day, his past – in the form of a drunk cartoonist, a suicidal hack and a corrupt City banker – pays a visit, and Chaliapin is resurrected, whether he likes it or not. He doesn’t, much.
Someone’s sending him some very strange cartoons. Someone’s setting off bombs all over London. Someone’s been up to no good with some very important people. This is no job for a man wearing pyjamas. Will Chaliapin make it out alive? And is being alive, when it comes down to it, really all it’s cracked up to be?
And a link to the authors site here
I will call into Quinns tomorrow to make sure they can order this book and send out an email with the price and when it will be available, If you could let me know asap if you want a copy I will get them ordered.
The next meeting is scheduled for the 22nd of July at 20.00.
