Tell Me Everything - Tuesdays from 10th March

Read and discuss this story of empathy, relationship and connection

Highlights

• Join this book club in English and gain extra motivation to read in English
• 6 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English
• Read this moving, emotionally intelligent novel and discuss finding beauty in the  telling of stories of others
• Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes

Practise and develop your English online in this 6 week advanced English book club course reading and discussing Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout.  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

Elizabeth Strout writes about small town, everyday life in Maine.  This books stars characters from some of her other novels, but still works if you haven't read anything else by her.  Bob Burgess, a local lawyer, is defending a lonely man accused of killing his mother. He has also become deeply attached to his friend, the writer, Lucy Barton, who lives nearby. Together, Lucy and Bob discuss their lives, their hopes and regrets, and what might have been.

At the same time, Lucy, has befriended Olive Kitteridge, now living in a retirement community on the edge of town. In Olive’s apartment, they tell each other stories of the  people they have known – “unrecorded lives,” as Olive calls them.  And by talking they manage to reanimate these lives, adding them with meaning.

OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK: 'A beautiful read reminding us that there is extraordinary love in ordinary actions' Oprah Winfrey

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2025

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