Nottingham’s independent bookshop | 14a Long Row, Nottingham NG1 2DH | 0115 8373097
Lucy and her eight-month-old son live in a Winnipeg housing project filled with single mothers on the dole. Still dealing with her own mother’s sudden death, and new to the ever-multiplying complications of life on welfare, Lucy strikes up a friendship with her neighbour, Lish. On the whole, they’re pretty happy .
. . But Lucy wants to make sure they stay happy.
And she has a plan. Told with Toews’s signature scalding wit and deep compassion, Summer of my Amazing Luck is a brilliantly funny book about the intricacies of friendship, grief, and poverty. ‘[A] picaresque account of two welfare moms having loopy adventures and getting by in the city…
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Sunday:
12.00pm – 4.00pm
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Five Leaves Bookshop
14a Long Row
Nottingham
NG1 2DH
0115 8373097