📚🚶Little Boy Lost: On Zoom this evening
Details for Emily's Zoom book club this evening to discover more about Marghanita Laski and her incredible novel.
Dear walking book clubbers,
It’s been wonderful to discuss this incredible novel about post-war France, detachment and moral quandaries with you at our walks. Thank you to Lucy for the sublime macarons on our Hampstead walk - if you’d like to commission Lucy to bake anything for you, please drop me a line and I’ll put you in touch.
And thank you all so much for waiting a week for this month’s Zoom, and putting up with the eventbrite gremlins, while I’ve been away in Rome. (More of which in this month’s On My Reading Radar, coming in a fortnight!)
If you’re free this evening and fancy a dose of culture before the onslaught of Easter chocolate, then please do join me for our Zoom book club, tonight at 8-9pm to discuss Little Boy Lost by Marganita Laski.
Emily’s Zoom Book Club: Monday 14th April, 8-9pm, £1-15
Everyone is welcome, whether or not you’ve read the book.
Feel free to enjoy a glass of wine / bowl of pasta / some knitting etc. while you chat.
It is helpful if you can book via Eventbrite using the button below, and pay £1-15, but if you have difficulty connecting this way (I think I’ve now fixed the glitch - thanks for pointing it out!), please do just join directly using the link HERE | Meeting ID: 892 0446 5778 | Passcode: Laski
Don’t forget that this month, in addition to our London walks, I will also be hosting a special walking book club in Bath about this book as part of the Persephone Day, on Saturday April 26th. I’d love to see you there!
Buy Little Boy Lost from Daunt Books HERE and receive 10% off using the code WBC at checkout, or just tell them you’re in Emily’s Walking Book Club if you’re buying it in the shop.
Finally, a reminder that you can find more about the book in my introduction to it here:
📚🚶May
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
This slender, haunting novel, comprised of a series of vignettes, follows a woman in her late 40s adrift in an unnamed Italian city. While little happens by way of plot, Lahiri beautifully renders the narrator’s wanderings and wonderings, which culminate in a life-changing moment. This is the first novel to be written in Italian and then translated into English by the prize-winning Bengali-American writer, whose short story collection Unaccustomed Earth was a very popular previous walking book club pick.
Curious to know more? THIS detailed piece by Tim Parks in the LRB is a great exploration of the book in the context of the author’s previous work.
Emily’s Regent’s Park Walking Book Club: Friday 9th May, 12-1.45pm, setting off from Daunt Books, 84 Marylebone High Street, W1U 4QW, £8-£20
Emily’s Hampstead Heath Walking Book Club Sunday 11th May, 11.30-1pm, setting off from Daunt Books Hampstead, 51 South End Road, NW3 2QB, £8-£20
Emily’s Zoom Book Club: Monday 12th May, 8-9pm, £1-£15
Buy Whereabouts from Daunt Books HERE and receive 10% off using the code WBC at checkout, or just tell them you’re in Emily’s Walking Book Club if you’re buying it in the shop.
We will have a break next week for Easter Monday, with my next email arriving in your inbox on Monday 28th April, with my tips for some other cultural highlights this month, as well as some Rome recommendations!
Happy reading,
Emily