Emily's Regent's Park Walking Book Club - October - Mrs Bridge

Fri Oct 11 2024 at 12:00 pm to 01:45 pm

Daunt Books Marylebone | London

Emily Rhodes
Publisher/HostEmily Rhodes
Emily's Regent's Park Walking Book Club - October - Mrs Bridge
Advertisement
We will walk and talk in Regent's Park discussing Evan S Connell's comic yet devastating novel about a 1950s housewife.
About this Event

Mrs Bridge is a housewife and mother in 1950s Kansas City, raising her children and making a home for her husband. She follows all the rules: putting out special hand towels for guests (although she hopes they won’t use them, and is furious when her son does), judges people by “their shoes and their manners at the table”, and has never met a socialist. In a series of beautifully drawn, subtly ironic and yet devastating vignettes, Connell catches the contradictions, narrowness and fear that can shadow a life of comfort.

Find out masses more about all our books on our substack: https://emilyswalkingbookclub.substack.com

N.B. Please ensure that you have read the book BEFORE coming on the walk - or it risks spoiling the event for other walkers. If you've don't quite have time to read the book, please consider instead joining the Monday evening Zoom, for which reading the book isn't a prerequisite.


Event Photos
Advertisement

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Daunt Books Marylebone, 84 Marylebone High Street, London, United Kingdom

Tickets

GBP 0.00

Discover more events by tags:

Books in London

Sharing is Caring: