Coffee to Cover Meet - Tell Me An Ending by Jo Harkin | Bangkok Book Club

Welcome to our fourth "Coffee to Cover", a series of events by Bangkok Book Club. Join us at Treehouse Café on Saturday 2nd August for coffee and brunch whilst we discuss 'Tell Me An Ending'.

This is a safe space to express your thoughts and interpretations, all while making connections with fellow bookworms. Whether you're a seasoned literary critic or a casual reader, everyone's voice matters.

Discussions will be led by John and Harriet and will take place in smaller, intimate groups, which will create a welcoming environment for all of our guests. Due to this, we will be limiting the sign-ups to 15 people.

Perfect for fans of 'Black Mirror' or 'Severence', Tell Me an Ending will be our first science fiction novel. One day, thousands of people around the world get an email saying that they once had a traumatic memory removed. Should they choose to get this memory back, or leave it forgotten forever?

Here's the description from Goodreads:

What if you didn't have to live with your worst memories?

Across the world, thousands of people are shocked by a notification that they once chose to have a memory removed. Now they are being given an opportunity to get that memory back. Four individuals are filled with new doubts, grappling with the unexpected question of whether to remember unknown events, or to leave them buried forever.

Finn, an Irish architect living in the Arizona desert, begins to suspect his charming wife of having an affair. Mei, a troubled grad school dropout in Kuala Lumpur, wonders why she remembers a city she has never visited. William, a former police inspector in England, struggles with PTSD, the breakdown of his marriage, and his own secret family history. Oscar, a handsome young man with almost no memories at all, travels the world in a constant state of fear.

Into these characters’ lives comes Noor, a psychologist working at the Nepenthe memory removal clinic in London. The process of reinstating patients’ memories begins to shake the moral foundations of her world. As she delves deeper into how the program works, she will have to risk everything to uncover the cost of this miraculous technology.

A provocative exploration of secrets, grief, and identity—of the stories we tell ourselves—Tell Me an Ending is a sharp, dark, and devastating novel about the power of memory.

Never Let Me Go meets Black Mirror in this thrilling speculative debut about a tech company that deletes unwanted memories, the consequences for those forced to contend with what they tried to forget, and the dissenting doctor who seeks to protect her patients from further harm.

If you have a copy of the book that you have finished and would like to sell on/give to other readers, please share on the discussion below :)

See you there!