The new year finds members of our book club returning to our normal schedule after all the December festivities. Our selection this month is The Woman They could not Silence by Kate Moore. “Best sell- ing author Kate Moore brings her sparkling narrative voice to … the unput- downable story of the courageous woman who fought for her own free- dom—and in so doing freed millions more.” Moore’s book is non-fiction and based on a true story of a woman confined to an asylum against her will. The subject matter has been featured in several fiction books over the years. I find it interesting that this book is set in the year 1860, the same year that Wilkie Collins’s classic The Woman in White was published. The subject mat- ter is also featured in Sarah Waters’ novel Fingersmith, published in 2002. I recommend both those books if you have not read them.
As mentioned before, Page Turners consist of three separate groups all reading the same books at the same time. For information on the two Thursday groups, please contact Steve and Ann Morris at samwrsi@cox.net. For the Monday group, I am the contact at fozimec@cox.net.
—Frances Ozimec
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