Blah Blah Book Club: November 2025 meetup

This month, we will be reading and discussing Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, Winner 2002 Women's Prize for Fiction, from our Open Choice category.

BLURB - Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honour of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxane Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerised the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening – until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends, and lovers. (331 pages)

Happy reading!