Everyone is welcome at our Contemporary Fiction book club, where on the first Wednesday of every month we discuss a recently-published paperback novel. In November we'll be delving into There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak.

Date:
Wednesday 5th of November

Venue:
Max Minerva's, 47 Henleaze Road, BS9 4JU

Time:
Doors at 18:30. Discussion at 18:45. Finish at 19:45.

Tickets:
Attendance for the book club is free, but if you could register your place through the website, it helps us to gauge numbers. 

If you would like to buy a copy of the book, you can order it through us and show up on the night. 

ABOUT There Are Rivers in the Sky

In Victorian London, an extraordinary child is born at the edge of the dirt-black Thames. When his brilliant memory earns him a spot as an apprentice at a printing press, the world opens up far beyond the slums and across the seas.

In 2014 in Turkey, Narin, a Yazidi girl living by the River Tigris, waits to be baptized. The ceremony is cruelly interrupted, and soon she and her grandmother must journey across war-torn lands in the hope of reaching the sacred valley of their people.

In 2018 in London, broken-hearted Zaleekhah, a hydrologist, moves to a houseboat on the Thames to escape the wreckage of her marriage – until an unexpected connection to her homeland changes everything.

From acclaimed author Elif Shafak, and spanning centuries and continents, There Are Rivers in the Sky is the story of one lost poem, two great rivers and three remarkable lives– all connected by a single drop of water.