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Five Leaves Open Book Group discusses Fell by Jenn Ashworth

Five Leaves Open Book Group discusses Fell by Jenn Ashworth
Monday, 22nd April, 2024    
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
*Five Leaves Bookshop
14a Long Row, Nottingham, NG12DH
Bookings closed
“The edgelands of England are strange, amorphous places; constantly shifting as sand, wind and water transform what was known yesterday (or even an hour ago) into something alien and disorienting. Beaches become marshes. The mouths of estuaries are made to yawn wider. Things are lost. The past resurfaces. Nowhere is this more apparent than Morecambe Bay, the setting for Jenn Ashworth’s fourth novel, Fell.” Guardian
A woman returns to the house in Morecambe Bay where she grew up in the 1960s to find it falling apart, undermined by the roots of two huge sycamores. She is unaware that she has awoken the spirits of her parents, Jack and Nettie Clifford, who watch anxiously as their daughter is overwhelmed by the state of the house and realise too late they neglected her as a child. As their memories come alive, the story unfolds of a crucial summer when Annette was 8 and Nettie became too ill to run their boarding house. The lodgers have to go – all except the newly arrived butcher’s apprentice, because he seems to have miraculous healing powers and is Jack and Nettie’s last, desperate hope. But is he who he says he is? Why do those he lays his hands on feel an erotic charge?
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Free, refreshments provided. We don’t mind where you source the book – libraries are good! – be we offer 15% discount on book group titles.

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