Every book group has someone who records every book they have ever read, a housewife with an alarming knowledge of literary murders, and a guy who just wants to meet women
Panic is too strong a word. Consternation is my overriding sense when I arrive at Amsterdam’s Café Brecht on a Sunday morning and the organiser says, “So you’ll just need to give me your phone.”
I hand my mobile over and he adds it to the milk crate beside the bar. “Cheer up,” he says. “It’s only three hours.”
Alison Edwards’ novel Two Daughters is out now (Atlantic Books Australia)
Continue reading… Every book group has someone who records every book they have ever read, a housewife with an alarming knowledge of literary murders, and a guy who just wants to meet womenPanic is too strong a word. Consternation is my overriding sense when I arrive at Amsterdam’s Café Brecht on a Sunday morning and the organiser says, “So you’ll just need to give me your phone.”I hand my mobile over and he adds it to the milk crate beside the bar. “Cheer up,” he says. “It’s only three hours.”Alison Edwards’ novel Two Daughters is out now (Atlantic Books Australia) Continue reading… Books, Culture, Australian books, Friendship, Life and style
