NWC Readers – October 2025
October 7 @ 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Come and join us for a cuppa & a chat about the controversial book, The Lover by Marguerite Duras. Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the semi-autobiographical intimacies and intricacies of a clandestine romance between a girl from a financially challenged French family and an older, wealthy Chinese-Vietnamese man.
NWC Readers is our friendly, informal and inclusive quarterly book group. It’s totally free and the next meeting is on Tuesday 1st October 2025 from 6pm to 7.30pm. To book your place, and get a PDF copy of the book from NWC Reception – call 0115 941 1475 or email reception@nottinghamwomenscentre.com, or just ask in person at NWC Reception!
*CONTENT NOTES: underage sex, racist ideas, mental illness, cruelty in family relations.
It’s totally free! We are going to be accessing the books through the library, and they are available to collect from NWC Reception.
No, come along when you can. They are every season, so 4 times a year.
Your copy of the book and any notes/thoughts you have about it.
/To book your place, call 0115 9411475 or email reception@nottinghamwomenscentre.com.