The Book Club: Wednesday 25th June *EVENING*

This session of The Book Club will take place on Wednesday 25th June, in the evening (6-7pm). This month, we are reading Amphibian by Tyler Wehterall, a tender, haunting coming-of-age debut about desire, precocity and the intensity of early friendships. £9.99 is the price of the book and a ticket to the session. 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.

One of our booksellers will lead the book club, and the group will be split up into smaller groups to discuss the text.

We always ask that you be respectful and kind whilst discussing the book and others’ opinions of it.

About the book:

‘Has a queasily compelling power’ The Times

‘Haunting and visceral as a fairytale’ Lilly Dancyger

‘Brims with sex and violence and threat, and moves to a crescendo of strange and magical beauty’ Rebecca Stott

Sissy is used to being on the outside. The new girl in her West Country school, she recently arrived with her troubled mother, prone to letting Sissy fend for herself.
But from the day Sissy fights a boy in front of Tegan, she’s no longer alone. Bonded by violence, they grow so close they feel like one being: wrapped around each other in bed at sleepovers, sending photographs to men they meet online, and scaring each other with reports of the girls being snatched at night in their town.

Over the course of the school year, they find themselves on the threshold of girlhood, with threats gathering thick and fast around them. And as their make-believe worlds bleed into their daily lives, Sissy feels herself transforming into something strange and terrifying.

Amphibian is a tender, haunting coming-of-age debut about desire, precocity and the intensity of early friendships that have the power to upend our lives.

About the Author:

Tyler Wetherall is a journalist and author. Her debut novel, Amphibian, was released in 2024. Her first book, No Way Home: A Memoir of Life on the Run, came out in 2018 from St. Martin’s Press, following her childhood spent on the run with her fugitive father. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, British Vogue, The Guardian, National Geographic, LitHub, Vice, and Condé Nast Traveler, amongst others. Tyler has made appearances on podcasts and radio including BBC Outlook, Good Life Project, and Radiotopia’s Criminal. She is also the creator of Reading the City, a weekly newsletter of bookish events taking place around New York City. Her writing is represented by Emma Parry at Janklow & Nesbit Associates. She is currently the senior editor at James Beard award-winning drinks magazine SevenFifty Daily and lives in Brooklyn with her husband.