The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver – March 2011

We met on Tuesday 6^th March  to discuss ‘The Poisonwood Bible’ by Barbara Kingsolver.   We had a day tripper who only wanted to discuss this one book.   She commented on how we really did discuss the book and not use the forum as a smoke screen for gossip. (As if !!)

The book is written through the voices of four daughters and their mother.   They observe their fathers hapless efforts to convert the inhabitants of a Congo village to Christianity.  Each daughter and their mother had to find their own physical and psychological escape from the Reverend Price’s religious tyranny. 

 We will next meet on Monday 2^nd April 2012 at 8pm. At the Drum and Monkey. We will discuss ‘The Return of the Native’ by Thomas Hardy. 

Day trippers are welcome.