ALTERNATE DATE November 2024 Book Discussion: Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry

This is an alternative date for the November book discussion. PLEASE ONLY sign up for ONE book discussion per month. This is an option for people who want a smaller group or cannot come on Sunday. The goal is to get some people to switch from the Sunday meeting so we can avoid a waitlist for either date.

NOVEMBER 2024 BOOK DISCUSSION
Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry
Hosted by Tara

From the five-time Booker Prize nominee and 2018-2021 Laureate for Irish Fiction, a virtuosic, profound novel exploring love, memory, grief, and long-buried secrets

Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching only glimpses of his eccentric landlord and a nervous young mother who has moved in next door. Occasionally, fond memories return of his family: his beloved wife June and their two children, Winnie and Joe. But when two former colleagues turn up at his door with questions about a decades-old case, one which Tom never quite came to terms with, he finds himself pulled into the darkest currents of his past.

A beautiful, haunting novel in which nothing is quite as it seems, Old God's Time is about what we live through, what we live with, and what may survive of us.