This group is open to all members of the DBWI, but if you would like to attend a meeting as a guest, please email debeauvoirwi@gmail.com. We meet at Brasserie 60, Newington Green at 7:30pm on the 3rd Tuesday of the month and as well as discussing a book over food or drink or cuppa, we choose the next one!

A recent read was Wavewalker by Suzanne Heywood. This book is set at sea! Aged just 7, Suzanne set sail with her family on a 3-year voyage around the world. It became a decade-long way of life, through storms, shipwrecks, reefs and isolation, with few friends and little formal schooling. It is an incredible story of how the adventure of a lifetime became one child’s worst nightmare – and how the determination to educate herself enabled her to escape.  

Other recent reads

Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior

The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff

A Heart So White by Javier Marias

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus

Bad Blood by Lorna Sage

The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch by Anne Enright

The President’s Child by Fay Weldon

The Warden by Anthony Trollope

Still Life by Sarah Winman

Something Fresh – P G Wodehouse

The Mercies – Kiran Millwood Hargrave

The Book of Emptiness – Ruth Ozeki

Longbourne – Jo Baker

All Quiet at the End of the World – Lauren James

Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell

Colour Purple – Alice Walker

My Sister the Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite

Silence of the Girls -Pat Barker

The  Lamplighters – Emma Stone