Cheltenham PABC: All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall (304 pages)

As voted on in the February session, in April we will read All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall.

There is a nominal fee of £2 for each session from January 2025 onwards. This is to contribute to the cost of hosting the group on Meetup.com.

The payment link for April is here:https://monzo.me/devonedwards-joseph/2.00?d=April%20Book%20Club%20&h=m0-iif

Feel free to arrive from 6.30pm if you'd like to meet people, get a drink, and have a chat before we start the book discussion at 6.45pm.

The expectation is that you will buy, borrow, or stream the book and read or listen ahead of the session, and then we will discuss it together.

This particular book is available to listen to for "free" with a Spotify Premium subscription.

You do not have to have finished the whole thing to attend, as long as you don't mind spoilers. :)

How to find us:
I have booked a table for us at The Swan under my name (Devon) - the bar staff will be able to direct you to it.
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Book description:

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All the Water in the World is told in the voice of a girl gifted with a deep feeling for water. In the years after the glaciers melt, Nonie, her older sister and her parents and their researcher friends have stayed behind in an almost deserted New York City, creating a settlement on the roof of the American Museum of Natural History. The rule: Take from the exhibits only in dire need. They hunt and grow their food in Central Park as they work to save the collections of human history and science. When a superstorm breaches the city’s flood walls, Nonie and her family must escape north on the Hudson. They carry with them a book that holds their records of the lost collections. Racing on the swollen river towards what may be safety, they encounter communities that have adapted in very different and sometimes frightening ways to the new reality. But they are determined to find a way to make a new world that honors all they've saved.

Inspired by the stories of the curators in Iraq and Leningrad who worked to protect their collections from war, All the Water in the World is both a meditation on what we save from collapse and an adventure story—with danger, storms, and a fight for survival. In the spirit of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Parable of the Sower, this wild journey offers the hope that what matters most – love and work, community and knowledge – will survive.
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