The Sisterhood Book Club

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 Village Hub opposite Chalkwell Park. The cost of taking part is the purchase of the book to be discussed, and books are available to collect either at the previous book club or they can be posted out to you 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, but now we read an eclectic mix of books. Recent reads include Crooked Cross (Sally Carson), 12 Ways to Kill Your Family at Christmas (Natasha Bache), and The Mountains Sing (Nguyen Phan Que Mai). 

About the book this month:

Dinner at the Night Library by Hika Harada

The Night Library is no ordinary library. Within it are found the rarest and most unusual collections – the books of deceased famous writers: the books they wrote, the books that inspired them, the books they loved.

When Otaha Higuchi receives a message from somebody calling themselves ‘Seven Rainbows’, inviting her to apply for a job at a library with no name, a place referred to simply as ‘The Night Library’ she feels she has found her place in the world : a treasure trove of books and friendship with a group of likeminded literary misfits, with whom she embarks on a series of bookish adventures. But when the library’s mysterious owner decides to temporarily close the library, Otaha and her friends fear that it may not reopen and that the peace they have found there will be lost to them forever. 

Dinner at the Night Library is a heartwarming literary mystery, filled with quirky characters, Japanese culture and the mouthwatering meals. Ultimately, it is a paean to reading and the relevance of books through the ages—past, present, and future.