The group will meet the first Thursday of each month at 1:15 pm. All comers welcome. Join this afternoon book group for friendly and pithy conversation. Open to one and all. Copies of the book will be available at the 1st floor circulation desk. Please read it before the meeting.
From Booklist
Her 1830 divorce caused a sensation, and from that time until her 1881 death, “her name was rarely out of the newspapers as she featured in one outrageous tale after another.” Jane Digby was born into the English aristocracy, growing up privileged by beauty as well as birthright. And, as the reader observes in this graceful, exhaustively researched biography, Jane’s dimensions of character and parameters of experience continued to grow in excess of what is ordinary. Her affair with an Austrian prince and consequent divorce from her prominent husband made it untenable for her to remain in or return to England; she then had a succession of lovers and husbands, including, by the time she was in middle age, “the love of her life,” a bedouin sheikh young enough to be her son. She was larger than life, but here she is made comprehensible yet still romantic; her incredible existence is told respectfully and authentically in all its full color. -Brad Hooper
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