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Burial Rites and The Sea
The Wolfon Contemporary Reading Group will next meet on Wednesday, 3 May at the usual time of 7:30pm in Plommer A. We will be discussing two books at the meeting and you are welcome to read one or both.
Burial Rites, Hannh Kent (2013)
Northern Iceland, 1829.
A woman condemned to death for murdering her lover.
A family forced to take her in.
A priest tasked with absolving her.
But all is not as it seems, and time is running out:
winter is coming, and with it the execution date.
Only she can know the truth. This is Agnes's story
The Sea, John Banville (2004)
When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Mr and Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins Myles and Chloe, who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that was to follow.
The book is available in local libraries, and in paperback and Kindle edition from Amazon* and other booksellers.
*Please remember to use the link on the Wolfson Alumni & Development website if you choose to buy from Amazon, as College will benefit from the sale: http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/alumni/amazon/
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