Reading for pleasure - book club

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Come and join us for a fun and informal chat at the final book club of the academic year. As always, we will have snacks and hot drink supplies to make it a cosy afternoon.

This month we will be reading Burnt Sugar by Avni Roshi.

‘In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing after a dishevelled, homeless 'artist' - all with her young child in tow. Now she is forgetting things, mixing up her maid's wages and leaving the gas on all night, and her grown-up daughter is faced with the task of caring for a woman who never cared for her.'

'This is a love story and a story about betrayal. But not between lovers - between mother and daughter. Sharp as a blade and laced with caustic wit, Burnt Sugar unpicks the slippery, choking cord of memory and myth that binds two women together, making and unmaking them endlessly.’ – Goodreads.