We hope you will join us in September for our next meeting. We are delighted that MSJ's Head of Library and Enrichment, Dr. Rebecca Jones will be our host, and we will be discussing our featured book choice, 'Shy Creatures' by Clare Chambers.

We invite those local to Malvern to join us in person in the Library from 6.30pm for refreshments, while those further afield will be able to join us as an online guest for the book discussion which will take place 7.00-8.30pm using Microsoft Teams.

Our Community Book Club is free to attend and open to everyone, so please do invite a guest if you would like, whether attending in person or online. The more the merrier!  

Croydon, 1964. Art therapist Helen Hansford is working in a psychiatric hospital, where she has been having passionate but precarious affair with her married colleague, the charismatic Dr Gil Rudden.

Helen's structured life is upended when William Tapping - a silent, thirty-seven-year-old man with a beard down to his waist - arrives at the hospital. As Helen helps William express himself through art, she becomes increasingly entangled in his mysterious past.

Inspired by a true story, Shy Creatures is a life-affirming exploration of loneliness, love and the quiet forces that shape our lives, reminding us that freedom can come in unexpected forms.

We look forward to you joining us!