Name: Book Club
Start: 2026-03-12T19:30:00+00:00
Location: The Hothampton Arms

This months book Club on Thursday 12th March, the second Thursday of the month. You can choose 'The Porpoise' by Mark Haddon or 'Watching You' by Helen Fields.
2026 is the National Year of Reading, so let's hear pages turn and those fingers swipe.
THE PORPOISE
Synopsis: A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash.
She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective father. She knows nothing of the rumours about a beautiful young woman, hidden from the world.
When a suitor visits, he understands far more than he should. Forced to run for his life, he escapes aboard The Porpoise, an assassin on his tail…
So begins a wild adventure of a novel, damp with salt spray, blood and tears. A novel that leaps from the modern era to ancient times; a novel that soars, and sails, and burns long and bright; a novel that almost drowns in grief yet swims ashore; in which pirates rampage, a princess wins a wrestler’s hand, and ghost women with lampreys’ teeth drag a man to hell – and in which the members of a shattered family, adrift in a violent world, journey towards a place called home.
Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41087290-the-porpoise
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WATCHING YOU
Synopsis: When a body is found, it is only the beginning. Soon there will be seven more.
In the city’s hospital, renowned surgeon Beth Waterfall is grieving. Her beloved only daughter fell prey to a vicious stalker a year previously – and now he’s coming for her too.
Edinburgh’s police are desperate. After one body comes another, and then another. The brutal deaths are all seemingly unconnected, and yet DS Lively and forensic profiler Dr Connie Woolwine know they are dealing with a serial killer – they just need to prove it.
But time is running out, and The Watcher is already set on making Beth Waterfall his next victim…
Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222823725-watching-you

Everyone is welcome.
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