fun for 50+ bookclub

Presented by the Community Center of La Canada Flintridge (CCLCF) and Flintridge Bookstore , (fun for 50+ Book Club). Held at CCLCF, read and discuss literature once a month. The book is free with your registration! Call the office to see if registrants are still being accepted and to learn more - 818-790-4353

The book discussed at the April meeting is “Hamnet”, a novel by Maggie O’Farrell.

NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare’s life ... here is a novel ... so gorgeously written that it transports you." —The Boston Globe

England, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on.

A young Latin tutor—penniless and bullied by a violent father—falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon, she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever. 

The book to be discussed in May, “Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance” (Non-Fiction/HIstory) by Erik Larson will be handed out at this meeting.