| Status: | Active, full but can join waiting list |
| Coordinator: | |
| Group email: | Booklovers group |
| When: | Monthly on Tuesday mornings 10:00 am-12:00 pm last Tuesday of month |
| Venue: | The Oakhouse |
| Cost: | coffee or tea need to be purchased |
Group Leader - Jill Gooding
We meet monthly to discuss a book from a list originally selected by members and provided by Maldon Library. We have all enjoyed the discussions which roam far and wide, full of laughter and a surprisingly lot of learning. If you love books and are interested in joining us meetings are held at The Oakhouse in the High Street and whilst the room hire is free there is an expectation that all attending members purchase a tea or coffee.To ensure that everyone has the opportunity to speak we have capped the membership at 12 so please contact me by clicking on my name above to see if we have any vacancies.
The books we read in 2024/25
The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer
The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes
Unruly by David Mitchell
All the Broken Places by John Boyne
At my mother’s knee by Paul O’Grady
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell
Bournville by Jonathan Coe
Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
The Dreamweavers by Barbara Erskine
Three things about Elsie by Joanna Cannon
Normal Rules don’t apply by Kate Atkinson
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
The Mermaid of Black Conch by Monique Roffey
Half a World Away by Mike Gayle
The People on Platform 5 by Clare Pooley
The Romantic by William Boyd Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Book review blog
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Then She was gone
This month we read Then She Was gone by Lisa Jewell.
In this dark psychological thriller, a 15 year old girl disappears without trace until 10 years later when some body parts are found. Then her mother meets a man with a daughter who looks uncannily like the missing girl. The story unfolds moving between the past and the present day and taking bizarre twists and turns.
We found this book disturbing and some of the characters extremely creepy. However most of us read it quickly, wanting to find out the full story of what had happened to the girl in the missing ten years. The characters were not very believable or likeable, so we didn’t feel much empathy for them.
Overall we didn’t enjoy this book, but several of the group had read other books by this author which were much better than this one.
Lisa Jewell is a British author of twenty plus novels, New York Times and Sunday Times number one bestselling author. This book was published in 2016, but was reissued last year and got to number one on the Sunday Times bestsellers list.