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Reading Group #8
Aminatta Forna
The Memory of Love

28th November 2018 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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If you like the sound of Forna’s book, then why not join us on 28 November for (decaff) coffee (or tea) and conversation – it’s our eighth read!

Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1969. On a hot January evening that he will remember for decades, Elias Cole first catches sight of Saffia Kamara, the wife of a charismatic colleague. He is transfixed. Thirty years later, lying in the capital’s hospital, he recalls the desire that drove him to acts of betrayal he has tried to justify ever since.

Elsewhere in the hospital, Kai, a gifted young surgeon, is desperately trying to forget the pain of a lost love that torments him as much as the mental scars he still bears from the civil war. It falls to a British psychologist, Adrian Lockheart, to help the two survivors, but when he too falls in love, past and present collide with devastating consequences.

Aminatta Forna was born in Scotland, raised in Sierra Leone and Great Britain and spent periods of her childhood in Iran, Thailand and Zambia. She is the award-winning author of the novels HappinessThe Hired ManThe Memory of Love and a memoir The Devil that Danced on the Water. She is currently Lannan Visiting Chair of Poetics at Georgetown University and Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

Please bring your own copy of the book.

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Date:
28th November 2018
Time:
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Venue

Cample Line
Thornhill DG3 4XX United Kingdom
Phone
01848 330000

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Cample Line