Book Club - March 6, 2025

Affinity by Sarah Waters (lesbian)

Copies of the book are available for check-out behind the first floor desk at the Mead Public Library, although you’re welcome to come even if you don’t read the book.

The discussions take place on the first Thursday of every month from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Paradigm Coffee & Music.☕️🎶

An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women’s ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London’s grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank’s murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by on apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. Selina was imprisoned after a séance she was conducting went horribly awry, leaving an elderly matron dead and a young woman deeply disturbed. Although initially skeptical of Selina’s gifts, Margaret is soon drawn into a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits…