Date Meeting Held: August 13Summary: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Time's Arrow tells the story, backwards, of the life of Nazi war criminal, Doctor Tod T Friendly. He dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home...Escaping from the body of the dying doctor who had worked in Nazi concentration camps, the doctor's consciousness begins living the doctor's life backwards.
What We Thought: Mostly we enjoyed the book although some people thought it was a bit too clever for its own good. K hated it. Recommend it to other readers on the basis that it is short, fairly easy to read and on an interesting topic.
Venue: S's House, North London
We Ate: Celery, cucumber and humus; spaghetti with mussels and rocket; M&S chocolate crispies and weirdy sweets from the far east
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