7:00pm-8:00pm on Tuesday 31 March
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The Really Popular Book Club is Cambridge University Library’s book group. Everyone is welcome to come and discuss a really popular book with the group, library staff and an expert on the novel. Hosted monthly and online, the book club is completely free and open to everyone – people attend from all over the world. The Really Popular Book Club celebrates the huge range of books at Cambridge University Library. We have more than 8 million books; and as a legal deposit library, we keep a copy of every book published in the UK, and have done since 1710.
Working as an intern for a New York fashion magazine in the summer of 1953, Esther Greenwood is on the brink of her future. Yet, she is also on the edge of a darkness that makes her world increasingly unreal. The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath’s semi-autobiographical novel that tells her story of depression, suicide attempt and time in a psychiatric hospital. Yet, it is also celebrated for its wicked sense of humour, rocketing pace and bold heroine who refuses to be cut down to size by a world in which women can’t want it all.
To discuss this book with the group, we’ll be joined by special guest Samantha Ellis, a playwright and writer best known for her book How to be a Heroine, and her play How to Date a Feminist.
