Haywards Heath Happy Ladies Book Club

The good thing about the Happy Ladies Book Club is that collectively we are finding that we are discovering books that we wouldn’t ordinarily read. Sometimes we find hidden gems and sometimes some of us don’t finish a book because it’s not our thing but that’s ok. We just discuss what we liked and what we didn’t and usually we find something about the book that we had missed.

Our member’s selection for August 17th is “Two Women in Rome” by Elizabeth Buchan
In the Eternal City, no secret stays hidden forever...
Lottie Archer arrives in Rome excited newly married and ready for change as she takes up a job as an archivist. When she discovers a valuable fifteenth-century painting, she is drawn to find out more about the woman who left it behind, Nina Lawrence.

Nina seems to have led a rewarding and useful life, restoring Italian gardens to their full glory following the destruction of World War Two. So why did no one attend her funeral in 1978?

In exploring Nina's past, Lottie unravels a tragic love story beset by the political turmoil of post-war Italy. And as she edges closer to understanding Nina, and the city draws her deeper into its life, she is brought up against a past which will come to shape her own future.

Join us at Miller & Carter HH and tell us what you think about “Two Women in Rome”

Our member’s selection for September 14th is ”The City & The City” by China Mieville

Synopsis
It is a story of the death of a woman and an investigation into it that leads the person in charge of it into conspiracies far stranger and more deadly than anything that he could have imagined.
All attendees will have the opportunity to choose a book so please bring your selection for future months.