Our Book Club met at The Queen’s Hotel in Penzance for their latest meeting, enjoying the delicious refreshments and unrivalled view, despite the gloomy weather.
The book for February was “The Goldfinch” by Donna Tartt – which is quite a lengthy story based on a boy, Theo Decker aged thirteen, son of a devoted mother and an absent father. He miraculously survives a catastrophe that otherwise tears his life apart. Alone and rudderless in New York, he is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Theo is tormented by longing for his mother and down the years he clings to the thing that reminds him of her: a small captivating painting that ultimately draws him into the criminal underworld.
Crowlas & Ludgvan WI 