Jenny Thomas from the Battersea Society Events Committee will be hosting the Book Club meeting - and the book up for discussion is …Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald – published in 1979 this novel won the Booker Prize in the same year.  The book explores the emotional restlessness of houseboat dwellers who live neither fully on the water nor fully on the land.  It was inspired by the most difficult years of Fitzgerald’s own life, years during which she lived on an old Thames sailing barge moored at Battersea Reach.

Please let us know if you would like to join us, so we have some idea of numbers. You can email bookclub@batterseasociety.org.uk