Templemore Library Adult Book Club Open To New Members
Templemore Library Adult Book Club are inviting new members to join their discussions and meet other literature enthusiasts. The next meeting of the club will take place this Thursday October 31st from 6:45pm to 7:45pm. The book club will be discussing the bestseller ‘The Bird in the Bamboo Cage’ by Hazel Gaynor at their next meeting.
Set against the backdrop of World War Two and inspired by a remarkable true story ‘The Bird in the Bamboo Cage’ tells the story of British woman Elspeth Kent who teaches in a missionary school in Northern China. Following the Japanese declaration of war on Britain and America, she finds herself trapped when Japanese forces take over the school where she works.
Through the hardship she faces in this time she forms an unlikely bond with ten-year-old British student Nancy Plummer when they along with their schoolmates are sent to an internment camp. Together with their school community they must learn to survive oppression, uncertainty and immense danger in the hope of being liberated.
Copies of the book are available from Templemore Library or can be purchased from any good bookstore. For further information on the adult book club call 0504 32555 or email templemorelibrary@tipperarycoco.ie