by Anne Sebba
This was our biography choice of the year and there was general disappointment in the style of this book. One comment was this novel reads like one long article about Wallis Simpson and the scandal.
We learn that Wallis may have been a hermaphrodite and had weight issues her whole life. Was she really in love with the King or did she in the end feel she had to stay with him after the abdication?
One member suggests we should read Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides which was a more engrossing novel about the journey of a hermaphrodite. This received the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2003.
We rated this book 5.5 out of 10.
Our next novel was going to be The Red House by Mark Haddon but this has now been changed.
The new choice is The Light Between Oceans by M L Stedman.
The next meeting will be at Megan's on Thursday July 25th.
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