☕ Next Herstories Book Club: Sat 25 April, 2.00-3.30pm
📍Location: Feminist Library
📖 Book: The Volcano Lover, by Susan Sontag (1992)
📚 Previous books we’ve read: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/herstories-book-club

A historical romance, Sontag’s book is based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his wife, Emma, and Lord Nelson in the final decades of the eighteenth century. Passionately examining the shape of Western civilization since the Age of Enlightenment, Sontag’s novel is an exquisitely detailed picture of revolution, the fate of nature, art and love.

☕ Next meeting: Sat 24 January 2.00-3.30pm
📍Location: Feminist Library
📖 Book: Annie John, Jamaica Kincaid, 1997.
160 pages
📚 Previous books we’ve read: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/herstories-book-club

The island of Antigua is a magical place: growing up there should be a sojourn in paradise for young Annie John. But, as in the basket of green figs carried on her mother’s head, there is a snake hidden somewhere within. Annie John begins by adoring her beautiful mother, but inexplicably she comes to hate her. Adolescence takes this brilliant, headstrong girl into open rebellions and secret discoveries – and finally to a crisis of emotions that wrenches her away from her island home.