– Poppy Loves Book Club – Left of The Bang by Claire Lowdon

Written on 04/10/2015. Posted in Books & Poems, Culture Vulture.

ONLINE CHAT DATE: Wednesday 28th October 2015, 7:30pm – 9pm, UK time
OUR NEXT BOOK: Left of The Bang by Claire Lowdon, published by Fourth Estate
** AUTHOR CLAIRE LOWDON WILL BE JOINING US FOR OUR DISCUSSIONS! **

Poppy Loves Book Club, in partnership with Le Pain Quotidien, sees women all around the world reading the same book at the same time, and then coming together online to discuss it on the last Wednesday of every month – often with the author too!
There are two things you need to do do join Poppy Loves Book Club and both are FREE!

1. Sign up!
AND…
2. Join the Poppy Loves Book Club Facebook Group! (This is where we hold the online chats)
That’s it! You’re all done! Now on with the book…
LEFT OF THE BANG BY CLAIRE LOWDON
Left of the bang: a military term for the build-up to an explosion.
For failing concert pianist Tamsin Jarvis, the pressure is mounting. She thought she was happy with her adoring schoolteacher boyfriend Callum, but when Chris comes into their lives, that starts to change. In a few months Chris will be gone, leaving for his first tour of Afghanistan. Nothing seems to be working out the way Tamsin wants it to – in fact, she’s not even sure what it is she wants.
With sharp, satirical humour, unparalleled social observation, extreme sexual honesty and great empathy, Claire Lowdon has captured the foibles, hopes and difficulties that characterise a strata of young London today. A funny, unflinching insider’s view on the generation born in the 1980s – who are often having much less fun than it seems – this is a Vanity Fair for our times…