Book Club

"The Crane Wife" By CJ Hauser

Ten days after calling off her wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to study the

whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, she realised she had almost signed up

to live somebody else's life. In this intimate, frank and funny memoir in essays, CJ Hauser lets

go of 'how life was supposed to be' and goes looking for more honest ways of living. She

kisses internet strangers, officiates a wedding, visits a fertility clinic. She reads Rebecca in the

house her new boyfriend shared with his ex-wife and rewinds Katharine Hepburn in The

Philadelphia Story to learn how not to lose yourself in a relationship. She writes about friends

and lovers, ghosts and robots, grief and heartbreak, blood family and chosen family, and asks

what more expansive definitions of love might offer us all. The Crane Wife is a book for

anyone whose life doesn't look the way they thought it would; for anyone trying, if sometimes

failing, to find joy in the unexpected.

Upcoming Book Clubs:

Sun Jun 29th: "The Pearl that Broke it’s Shell" By Nadia Hashimi

Sun Jul 27th: "The Summer Book" By Tove Jansson

Sun Aug 31st: "The Bees" By Carol Ann Duffy

Sun Sep 28th: "Yellowface" By Rebecca F. Kuang

Sun Oct 26th: "The Spring of Kasper Meier" By Ben Fergusson

Sun Nov 30th: "The Nightingale" By Kristin Hannah