April Book Club
Discussing Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester
When
to
Where
Boundless Books, Leederville
Join us on either Monday 6th or Monday 20th of April at 7pm to discuss this month's book club pick - Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester.
This $5 ticket will give you entry into the book club, which will include a delightful assortment of food & drinks AND you'll get $5 off the book club book for next month if you purchase on the night!
Order your copy of the book here
We can't wait to see you there.
About the book:
From the bestselling author of Capital comes this satirical psychological thriller - think the acid black wit of Jesse Armstrong or Jonathan Coe meets Notes on a Scandal by way of the British middleclass.
Have you seen Cheating? Do you think it's as good as everyone says? Better than Succession, White Lotus, Dallas, the Old Testament, Tolstoy? What do you make of the younger girlfriend? Is she really supposed to be as horrible as she seems? Do you think you're supposed to hate the wife? And are you supposed to like the husband? Because I can't stand him. Actually, is there a single person in it you don't hate - or is sort of the point? Are the boomers worse than the millennials, or is it the other way round? Who's more oblivious, more spoilt? What's she going to do when she finds out? She won't find out, will she
Imagine the most intimate parts of your marriage stolen and turned into the subject of the year's hottest TV sensation. How would you take it? Turn the other cheek? Or play the revenge game? Surely, you wouldn't go as far as this.
About the author:
John Lanchester was born in Hamburg, grew up in Hong Kong and lives in London. He has written six works of fiction and four of non-fiction. His books have won the Hawthornden Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, the E.M. Forster Award and the Premi Llibreter, been longlisted for the Booker Prize and translated into twenty-five languages. The television mini-series of his novel Capital won an International Emmy Award. He is a contributing editor to the London Review of Books and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.