Emily's Hampstead Heath Walking Book Club - July - The Greengage Summer

This evocative, tense coming-of-age story, written in 1958 and set in France soon after the First World War, follows five English children, who are stranded in a French hotel when their mother is taken ill. Narrated by 13-year-old Cecil, a summer of freedom rapidly sours into a shocking discovery of adult desire and deceit.

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N.B. Please ensure that you have read the book BEFORE coming on the walk - or it risks spoiling the event for other walkers. If you've don't quite have time to read the book, please consider instead joining the Monday evening Zoom, for which reading the book isn't a prerequisite.