The Book Club August – Baby Friendly

Join us on Thursday 27th August at 10:30am in person. For this month’s Book Club, we are reading Happy Life by David Foenkinos and translated by Sam Taylor.

Purchase the book and a ticket to the event for £10.99. The book can be delivered directly to you (please add your shipping address and tick the box for shipping) or you can collect it in store free of charge.

You can buy a book and ticket here.

If you already own a copy of the book, you can purchase a ticket alone for £3.

You can purchase a ticket only here.

For those unable to afford a book or ticket at present, we have a limited amount of complementary books/tickets. Please contact the bookshop via bookworms@houseofbooksandfriends.com or call 07597365380.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a baby friendly session of our adult bookclub, parents are able to bring little ones and we understand there may be noise and interruption. Much like baby friendly movie screenings, the books will still contain adult themes and language etc. We ask that all in attendance understand and expect this.

About the book:

Everyone, at some point in their lives, wants to be someone else.

Eric Kherson – forty, divorced, disconnected – is questioning all his life choices. One meeting with an old school friend is all it takes for him to pack in his prestigious job and accept her offer of a high-powered government position.

He throws himself into her world of endless networking and high-risk deals, but when a business trip to Seoul starts unravelling, Eric feels more lost than ever. Wandering the city streets, he stumbles across Happy Life, a shop offering a curious service: fake funerals. For Eric, this encounter with death might be the very thing to reawaken his appetite for life…