Members at the meeting and those who wrote in generally enjoyed this book which they found interesting and different because of the author’s descriptions of the friendships
Those members who tackled this book found the writing rather hard going and at times repetitive but the subject interesting enough to press on to the end.
Members agreed you need to check your credulity at the door with this novel but they liked several aspects of it.
Most members enjoyed this entertaining history of domestic life in England and America. The author uses as an organising framework the history of his own house, an English rectory built in 1851.
This novel led to some interesting discussion, with members divided on whether it was a good read or not.
We liked this one for being a real page turner with an interesting plot, but we also all agreed that if you truly want to know about Nancy Wake, on whom the novel is based, you will have to read elsewhere.
Members almost universally gave a thumbs down for this book, describing it as too weird, too different, too black, too challenging, not funny, too anguished, too painful, too silly, too difficult and too avant garde to finish.
Damon Courtenay died at the age of 24 on April Fool’s Day, 1991, from AIDS- related illnesses.
This month it was almost unanimous. Nobody in the group liked A Spool of Blue Thread – except one.
Club members gave this book a rating of 8 out of 10 or higher, with most giving it 9.5.
