Cheltenham PABC: It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over (160 pages)

As voted on in the June session, in August we will read It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken.

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 August is here: https://monzo.me/devonedwards-joseph/2.00?d=August%20book%20club%20%F0%9F%93%9A&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.

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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The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity, she remembers with an implacable and nearly unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was known―where she loved and was loved.

Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another. A tale for our dispossessed times, and one of the sharpest and funniest novels of recent years, It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over plumbs mortality and how it changes everything, except possibly love.
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