#SaturdayStack: Bookclub Books #BookclubBooks #Tbr

Good morning everyone and happy Saturday. Here are some of the books I’m reading for book clubs this month!

⭐ Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden
⭐ A Fortune Woman by Polly Morland
⭐ The Language Of Food by Annabel Abbs

Black Narcissus is for the #vmcbookclub , Language Of Food is for the #HFBookClub and I’m really looking forward to reading it as I’ve been wanting to read it for ages. A Fortune Woman is the book club read for @rossiter_books in Malvern and I’m very intrigued by this one as I’ve heard great things about it.

Do you belong to any bookclubs? What are you reading this month?

Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden

High in the Himalayas, the mountaintop palace shines like a jewel. Built for the General’s harem, laughter and music once floated out over the gorge. Now it sits abandoned, windswept and haunting.

The palace is bestowed to the Sisters of Mary, and what was once known as ‘the House of Women’ becomes the Convent of St Faith. Close to the heavens, the nuns feel inspired, working fervently to establish their school and hospital. But as the isolation and emptiness of the mountain become increasingly unsettling, passions long repressed emerge with tragic consequences . . .

A Fortunate Woman by Polly Morland

When Polly Morland is clearing out her mother’s house she finds a book that will lead her to a remarkable figure living on her own doorstep: the country doctor who works in the same remote, wooded valley she has lived in for many years. This doctor is a rarity in contemporary medicine – she knows her patients inside out, and their stories are deeply entwined with her own.

In A Fortunate Woman, with its beautiful photographs by Richard Baker, Polly Morland has written a profoundly moving love letter to a landscape, a community and, above all, to what it means to be a good doctor.

The Language Of Food by Annabel Abbs

England, 1835. Eliza Acton dreams of becoming a poet, but when she takes her new manuscript to a publisher, she’s told that ‘poetry is not the business of a lady’. Instead, he demands a cookery book.

Eliza is hesitant but when her bankrupt father is forced to flee the country, she has no choice but to comply.

Although she has never cooked before, she is determined to learn and to bring her skills as a poet to the craft of recipe writing. She hires young, impoverished Ann Kirby as her assistant and, before long, the two women develop a radical friendship crossing the divides of age and class. Together, Eliza and Ann break the mould of traditional cookbooks, changing the course of food writing forever.  But in the process of doing so, their friendship is pushed to its very limits.