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The\u00a0Reader Bookshelf<\/a>\u00a0is a\u00a0 carefully curated collection of literature for adults and children, exploring a different theme each year, this year\u2019s theme \u2018Wonder\u2019 is about being bold, being curious and being open. Staff and volunteers around the country have selected 12 titles for adults which explore what ‘Wonder’ means to them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

We’re delving into The Reader Bookshelf with a review by Katie Clark, our Director of Literature. This month Katie shares her thoughts on The Fat Lady Sings<\/em> by Jacqueline Roy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The author Jacqueline Roy visited The Reader for our Gravity Festival in 2022, and her novel The Fat Lady Sings has stayed with me ever since. When we were thinking about our theme of ‘Wonder’, and how impossible wonder as a state of mind might be for some people, I thought about the characters of Gloria and Merle, trapped in a London psychiatric ward by their struggles with mental health and a system that doesn’t understand them. Gloria often breaks into song unexpectedly, and skips when she should walk, but her loud fearlessness is a product of grief. Merle is tormented by voices in her head who tell her she is worthless; she lives in constant, paralysing fear. But together, through friendship, Gloria and Merle help each other to find a way out of the ward and back to life. The novel goes to some dark places \u2013 it deals with intense distress and loneliness head-on \u2013 but it also encompasses humour, tenderness and moments of great joy.<\/p>\n

Join us on at Calderstones on 8 February 2024 as we welcome Jacqueline Roy herself to discuss the book and talk her latest novel In Memory of Us. Book tickets here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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