Venue: St Robert’s Club in the den I think (Meeting proper starts at 7.30pm)
Lead: Jen
Book: The Little Snake by A L Kennedy
Available: Paperback, **kindle,** audible
Length : Pages - 144 / listen - 3 hrs

We cannot use the North Bar for December 2024 as they want to keep the room free for Christmas parties instead, so we needed to find somewhere else and the upstairs bar area at the Everyman Cinema, Harrogate was suggested as an alternative venue but I’ve now booked us into St Robert’s Club on Robert Street opposite the Catholic Church of ST Robert’s. Parking outside is fairly limited but there’s plenty on South Park Road across the Waitrose car park!

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A magical, charming and deeply moving fable about the journey we all take through life, about love and family, about war and resilience, about how we live in this world and how we leave it.

'Some time ago, perhaps before you were even born, a young girl was walking in her garden. She may have been called Mary - that's what most of the stories say. Mary was a little bit taller than the other girls her age and had brownish crinkly hair. She was quite thin, because she didn't always have exactly enough to eat. She liked honey and whistling and the colour blue and finding out.'

This is the story of Mary, a young girl born in a beautiful city full of rose gardens and fluttering kites. When she is still very small, Mary meets Lanmo, a shining golden snake, who becomes her very best friend. The snake visits Mary many times; he sees her city change, become sadder as bombs drop and war creeps in. He sees Mary and her family leave their home, he sees her grow up and he sees her fall in love. But Lanmo knows that the day will come when he can no longer visit Mary, when his destiny will break them apart, and he wonders whether having a friend can possibly be worth the pain of knowing you will lose them.

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