Sutherland Library Classics Book Group

There is no commitment required; just turn up ready to share your thoughts. Each month a book from classic literature is selected by the group to be read for the following meeting.

August meeting: Fifth business / Robertson Davies

The first book in Robertson Davies’s acclaimed: The Deptford Trilogy.

Ramsay is a man twice born, a man who has returned from the hell of the battle-grave at Passchendaele in World War I decorated with the Victoria Cross and destined to be caught in a no man’s land where memory, history, and myth collide. As Ramsay tells his story, it begins to seem that from boyhood, he has exerted a perhaps mystical, perhaps pernicious, influence on those around him. His apparently innocent involvement in such innocuous events as the throwing of a snowball or the teaching of card tricks to a small boy in the end prove neither innocent nor innocuous.

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The Fine Print

It is up to you to source a copy of the selected book. The library does have some copies for loan, but these are available for all library members to borrow so may be unavailable. You can check availability in the library catalogue. Alternatively, we may be able to source a copy from another library service via our interlibrary loans service (standard charges apply).