Read and discuss this gripping best-selling coming-of-age murder mystery novel, set in the beauty of nature
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 a coming of age story within a murder mystery
- Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes
Practise and develop your English online in this 6 week course using Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. 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
Where the Crawdads* Sing tells the story of sensitive and intelligent Kya Clark who lives outside society in the marshlands (* a crawdad is an American word for a freshwater crayfish - like a large prawn!) When in late 1969, Chase Andrews is found dead, the local people instinctively suspect the marsh girl of the crime.
But Kya is not an ignorant wild child - she is a born naturalist, who has learnt about life from nature. But Kya starts to need the company of others and the novel asks how isolation influences the behaviour of this young woman.
Thought-provoking, moving, and wise, Owens helps us to remember that child we once were and the shaping that happens as we grow up, in a background of the constantly changing natural world. But the book is also a murder mystery. Highly recommended!
"A rare achievement" The Times
"Vivid and original" The Guardian
"A painfully beautiful first novel" The New York Times Book Review
Geoff says:
"This is a very interesting book to discuss. It is a historical novel set in the 1950s and 60s with two parallel narrative time lines. The book is hard to classify - is it a coming of age story? A murder mystery? A meditation on nature and our place in it? The truth is that it is all of these. Readers around the world have fallen in love with this, the debut best-selling novel from Delia Owens who spent many years as a wildlife scientist in Africa."
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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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