Astons Book Club
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New and visiting members are very welcome to attend - please see the "Village Organisation Contacts" in the Astons News for contact details. We meet at members' homes, on the third Monday morning of each month - except December and August.
OUR NEXT READ: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towels .
Postponed for the time being, due to Covid D restrictions.
We are attempting a virtual discussion on this!
In 1922 Count Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal. He is sentenced to house arrest in The Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him a doorway into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
