August Book Club
Discussing Land by Maggie O'Farrell
When
to
Where
Boundless Books, Leederville
Join us on Monday 3rd or 17th of August at 7pm to discuss this month's book club pick - Land by Maggie O'Farrell.
Your $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 pick 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:
Inspired by the mapping of Ireland in the mid nineteenth century, Land, the new novel from the author of Hamnet, is at once intimate and epic: a portrait of a family navigating a legacy of upheaval and loss with love and hope.
On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomas and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. Tomas, however, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster.
The British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tomas is unexpectedly sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse. His life, and those of his family, will never be the same again. Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his taciturn father. What was it that caused such cracks to open in Tomas and how is Liam, aged only ten, going to finish the mapping, and get them both home?