Thank you to everyone who helped me with the Meetup fees in 2024.
November's meetup is taking place a little earlier in the month than usual. It will be the last one of 2025 as we'll take a break for Christmas! We will meet from 6:30 onwards at the pub and go to the room upstairs between 6:30 and 7:00. Please check with the bar staff before going up that the room is ready and please don't go up before our start time. We will start the discussion at around 7:00pm and talk about the book for an hour or so before having a break. Then we can vote on next month's book.
If you have any suggestions for short(ish) books for the next shortlist, please message me ahead of time.
Thanks!
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The Stepford Wives - Ira Levin (1972, 144 pages)
For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret—a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same.
At once a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a savage commentary on a media-driven society that values the pursuit of youth and beauty at all costs, The Stepford Wives is a novel so frightening in its final implications that the title itself has earned a place in the American lexicon.
