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The Sisterhood Book Club
The Sisterhood Book Club

The Sisterhood Book Club

Reading ... Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

Time & Location

24 Sept 2024, 19:30 – 21:00

Do It Like A Mother, 861 London Rd, Westcliff-on-Sea, Southend-on-Sea, Westcliff-on-Sea SS0 9SZ, UK

About the Event

The Sisterhood Book Club is a friendly book club for adults, discovering and rediscovering female protagonists in classic, modern classic and contemporary world fiction written by women.

We meet monthly to informally discuss a book read in advance, over refreshments at the Emporium. The cost of taking part is the purchase of the book to be discussed, and books are available to collect at least a month prior to the book club.

We were originally inspired by Penguin Books' Sisterhood Collection, which included titles such as Anne of Green Gables, Little Women and Pride and Prejudice. Most recently, we have read One For Sorrow, Two For Joy (Marie-Claire Amuah), A System So Magnificent it is Blinding (Amanda Svensson) and Diary of a Void (Emi Yagi). 

About the book this month:

Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

For Geeta, life as a widow is more peaceful than life as a wife, until the other women in her village decide they want to be widows, too. Geeta is believed to have killed her vanished husband - a rumour she hasn't bothered trying to correct, because a reputation like that can keep a single woman safe in rural India. But when she's approached for help in ridding another wife of her abusive drunk of a husband, her reluctant agreement sets in motion a chain of events that will change the lives of all the women in the village ...

A darkly irreverent and fresh take on a feminist revenge thriller. Longlisted for The Women’s Prize for Fiction.

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