Book Club 📖: Normal People 🎓❤️‍🩹🇮🇪 (Sally Rooney)

Whether you’re a true bookworm or simply seeking a motivation to get reading more often, the book club is a great place for conversation and meeting new people! Come and enjoy some interesting discussion alongside more relaxed chatter, with the book as the jumping off point.

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This time, we’ll be reading the #1 Sunday Times Bestseller: Normal People by prizewinning young novelist Sally Rooney.

Acclaimed by The Guardian as ’the literary phenomenon of the decade’, Normal People is a ’tender and devastating’ bildungsroman, whose coming-of-age romance narrative has very quickly attained modern classic status in contemporary literature! 🏆📰

The novel - and the award-winning BBC TV adaptation 📺 we’ll compare it with during our discussion - has touched hearts and souls with its quietly captivating exploration of the frustrations of falling in love whilst only just beginning to discover who you are 💔🤔.

Described by Stylist as ’the book that defined a generation’, we look forward to reflecting together on its themes of identity fluidity, relational power dynamics, social class disparity, trauma, mental health and the impact of miscommunication on intimate relationships 💭🧠.

The Centurion is a relaxed, elegant and spacious bar with comfortable seating and a quiet atmosphere, well-suited to literary conversations! 📕🍷

Converted from the historic first class lounge at Central Station 🚂✨, its luxuriant environs are situated at ground floor level, easily accessible, with public transport links aplenty nearby. If you’re feeling peckish there are various shops adjacent that you can pick up nibbles from.

This is an open session, so feel free to drop by at any time during the evening: we’re pretty easygoing ☺️.

Hope you can join us!