September Book Club Meeting, Online

Our September book is The Eights by Joanna Miller (384 pages).

2025/2026 Schedule
September 18: The Eights by Joanna Miller (384 pages)
October 16: The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd (334 pages)
November 20: The Push by Ashley Audrain (320 pages)
December: No meeting
January 15: The Demon of Unrest by Erik Larson (592 pages)

Synopsis
Oxford, 1920. For the first time in its one-thousand-year history, Oxford University officially admits female students. Burning with dreams of equality, four young women move into neighboring rooms in Corridor 8. Beatrice, Dora, Marianne, and Otto—collectively known as The Eights—come from all walks of life, each driven by their own motives, each holding tight to their secrets, and are thrown into an unlikely, unshakable friendship.

Dora was never meant to go to university, but, after losing both her brother and her fiancé on the battlefield, has arrived in their place. Politically-minded Beatrice, daughter of a famous suffragette, sees Oxford as a chance to make her own way - and some friends her own age. Otto was a nurse during the war but is excited to return to her socialite lifestyle in Oxford where she hopes to find distraction from the memories that haunt her. And finally Marianne, the quiet, clever daughter of a village pastor, who has a shocking secret she must hide from everyone, even her new friends, if she is to succeed.

Among the historic spires, and in the long shadow of the Great War, the four women must navigate and support one another in a turbulent world in which misogyny is rife, influenza is still a threat, and the ghosts of the Great War don’t always remain dead.

Meeting Details
This is an online video meeting. Google Meet code will be visible closer to the event for those who have rsvp'd.