Memory & Identity Book Club @ Good Company Books

Grab your book and your coffee, it's book club time with your host Leonor Galão at Good Company Bookstore!

We meet on Saturday mornings, once a month, to talk about memory and identity. Reading the book fully is encouraged, but if you haven't finished it, or you've lost the habit of reading altogether, why not give this book club a chance? Come as you are, whether you've read every page or just want to hear people talk about a good book over coffee.

Note from your hostess, Leonor Galão:

Since I learned how to read, I've been carrying a book with me; it's just how I've always moved through the world. I run @a_raposa_matreira_, a bookstagram where I share what I'm reading and talk about books across cultures. I've organised book clubs in Italy, and they taught me that nothing is as special as bonding over a book.

Book of the month: Said the Dead by Doireann Ni Ghriofa

The more she learned, the more certain she became: this other world was alive and true and trembling, and very close to her own. Now she had a secretIn the city of Cork, a derelict Victorian mental hospital is being converted into modern apartments.

One passerby has always flinched as she passes the place. Had she lived in another time, she too might have found herself held within those walls. Now, she notices a sign: FOR SALE.

It is the first of many signs. Guided by an irresistible impulse, she follows them. Soon, she is trespassing, stealing, absconding from the routine of mother, spouse, daughter, as she uncovers a chorus of startling voices: those of the women who knew the hospital best.

They murmur from archives and old records. They haunt from stairwells and walls. In them - and in one figure in particular - she may find meaning and solace, righteous anger, salvation even.

Or her final vanishing? A work of sublime intensity and tenderness, Said the Dead breaks the boundaries between worlds past and present, imagined and real, fact and fiction, to make something new and lasting: an experience full of danger, full of love and full of truth.

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