A good turnout to talk about last month’s book, Spies by Michael Frayn I just loved it: it got off to a slow start with the central character revisiting the street where he grew up. Once he’d started telling the story as a boy though, the story became really compelling. Set during WW2, a boy, Stephen, is told by his friend Keith that Keith’s mother is a German spy so they start spying on her. Unwittingly they reveal that she’s having an affair which they are blind to and don’t realise the complications that they are unleashing on the families. I couldn’t put it down – it was a great book, and really well written.
We had a bit of a long discussion about which book to do next and there were a lot of great suggestions made. We settled on Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I remember enjoying the book when I read it at school so it’ll be interesting to revisit it after so long.
There’ll be an extraordinary meeting on July 3 at the All Nations, and then we’ll discuss the book on August 7 at the All Nations. See you there!
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