Read and discuss this beautifully written, lyrical story of new neighbours disturbing a mother and daughter's carefully constructed world
Highlights
- Join this book club and gain extra motivation to read in English
- 6 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English
- Read this book to discuss Sicilian folklore, families, friendship, class and autism
- Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes
Practise and develop your English online in this 6 week course using All the Little Bird Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow. Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.
The Book Club book
This poetic book is really memorable - the story of an autistic mother and free-spirited daughter whose lives change when a charming new couple move in next door.
The mother, Sunday Forrester, is neuro-diverse - she doesn't understand the world in the way that most people do, for example sometimes being compelled to only eat white foods. Social situations are confusing for her, despite reading her etiquette handbook of how people should behave. Another source of how things should be comes from her mother's family - the folk stories from her Sicilian heritage. Sunday lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dolly, her clever, independent-minded, teenage daughter.
Into this world come Vita and Rollo, their new next door neighbours. With their elegance and charm what impact will they have on the structured and controlled world that Sunday has created? And what will be the impact on Dolly, and the relationship between mother and daughter, especially since Vita has always wanted a daughter like Dolly...
*LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2024*
'Delicate and strong... I loved it' Maggie O'Farrell'
'Darkly vivacious... mesmerising' Guardian
'Immaculate' Financial Times
'A triumph' Daily Telegraph
Geoff says:
"I highly recommend this if you like a beautifully written, lyrical style. I also loved the way that traditional beliefs, customs and stories from Sicily are weaved into this great narrative."
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| Age | 18+ |
| Online class size | Maximum 8 participants, on Zoom, using break-out rooms for increased speaking and discussion |
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