Our next meeting will be at 8pm on 23rd September and we are planning a return to the Old Dairy. This month's choice is 'Cold Comfort Farm' by Stella Gibbons which has been variously descibed as a 20th century classic, hilarious, witty, charming and engaging. Here is an (abridged) review from Google Books/ Amazon but hey, why not read it for yourself and then come along and discuss why you loved or hated it.

'Flora Poste leaves London and goes to stay with her gloriously eccentric relatives, who live in ramshackle "Cold Comfort Farm", where they wash the dishes with twigs, and have cows named Graceless, Pointless, Feckless, and Aimless. Headed by Flora's Aunt Ada Doom (who has not been right in the head since she "saw something nasty happen in the woodshed" nearly seventy years ago), they are a motley and strange crew indeed. What follows is Flora's attempt to 'civilize' the inhabitants of the farm and organise their lives in a series of entertaining events.'

On another thread there are suggestions for future Book Club choices, it would be splendid to hear what people have to say about these. We try to choose things that will attract a mixed bunch of people and provoke lively discussion so all recommendations and suggestions are most welcome.

Andy, would you be so kind as to make this the new 'sticky' thread please?