Join the Irish Support Agency's community book club which meets on the last Thursday of each month at 6pm in the Gaelic Club, Surry Hills.
This is a great way to discover new books, meet like-minded people and everyone is welcome.
This month we are reading Time of The Child by Niall Williams.
Sneak peak:
“A compassionate, life-affirming novel about the Christmas season that transforms the small Irish town of Faha. TIME OF THE CHILD, is about Doctor Jack Troy, born and raised in Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from the town. A visit from the doctor is a sign of bad things to come. His eldest daughter, Ronnie, has grown up in her father’s shadow, and remains there, having missed one chance at real love – and passed up another offer of marriage from an unsuitable man.
But in the advent season of 1962, as the town readies itself for Christmas, Ronnie and Doctor Troy’s lives are turned upside down when a baby is left in their care. As the winter passes, father and daughter’s lives, the understanding of their family, and their role in their community are changed forever. “
(Blurb source: Time of the Child – Niall Williams)