October 2025 Book Club - Dice by Claire Baylis

For our October book, we are reading “Dice” by Claire Baylis.

Dice is a courtroom drama told from the perspective of a diverse group of ordinary people - the jury.

The crimes - Four teenage boys invent a sex game based on rolling dice and doing what the numbers say. They are charged with multiple sexual offences against three teenage girls. Twelve random jurors are brought together in a trial to work out what actually happened. Only they can say whether crimes have been committed and who should be punished.

How will twelve women and men, aged from eighteen to seventy-two with hugely disparate backgrounds, beliefs and experience, decide whether consent was given or crimes were committed? How can they possibly arrive at a unanimous verdict? How will justice be properly served? Will the verdict deliver justice, or just reflect the prejudices and differences in the jury?

In this debut novel, chapters are told through the point of view of each juror as the trial unfolds. The reader too becomes a jury member as the evidence is presented and information is withheld, fragmented and re-told by different witnesses. Each person must decide where the truth lies.

If you are coming to the Meet Up, we welcome recommendations for our next book. Come prepared to describe your choice. We like books of short to medium length that will not be too much of a challenge to read in the month or so allotted!

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