London Society Book Group | Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald

  The new London Society Book Group will be holding its first meeting on 9 May in the evening (venue tbc, but central London). The book being discussed is the Booker Prize-winning ‘Offshore‘ by Penelope Fitzgerald. The discussion will be continued online , so even if you can’t make the meeting you can still contribute to the debate. (And you don’t have to be a London Society member to come to the meeting or take part in the online discussion.) To join the mailing list for this meeting and for future books, please sign up here. Set among the houseboat community of the Thames, ‘Offshore’ is a dry, genuinely funny novel, set among the houseboat community who rise and fall with the tide of the Thames on Battersea Reach. Living between land and water, they feel as if they belong to neither‚Ķ