In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut.
It's a bit weird but good all the same.
Ahh that was part of my Booker Prize Reading Challenge last year. I thought it was really good.
I finished reading a book called Lying by Wendy Perriam, who attended our Reading Group to discuss it with us at the library last night. It's about a woman who wants to marry a man so much that she converts to Catholicism in order to be with him. It's loosely based on her parents life.
It was very interesting to see her reaction as to how we responded to her characters. We did not like them very much, whereas she felt that they had some saving graces to them. One member was astonishingly honest with the author, saying that she thought the dialogue was unrealistic. I don't believe that it was: I think we all have our opinions of what reality is. Anyway, I enjoyed it and the author was so personable and friendly, no standoffishness there at all
Next month's reading group book is 'Spies' by Michael Frayn. One of the girls who has just joined us works for a drinks company so she will be bringing free bottles of wine