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SUMMARY:Hawthorn Book Club: July 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our next Thursday book club! \nWe usually meet on the second Thursday of each month for a relaxed and friendly conversation about the current book. \nThis month we will meet on the third Thursday (16th July)\, returning to the second week in August (Thursday 13th). \nThe bookshop door will be open from 6.50pm for a 7pm start in our atmospheric upstairs space. \nOur book club meetings are free to attend\, and we offer a 10% discount on each month’s paperback choice. \n  \nThis Month’s Book\nThe Mercy Step by Marcia Hutchinson\nA sharply-witted and tender portrait of a young girl’s quiet rebellion and her refusal to be broken. \nShortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2026\nWinner of the British Book Award – Discover Prize \nDark\, humorous\, and passionately captures the unique realities of the northern Black experience — The Observer \nSet in 1960s Bradford\, The Mercy Step follows Mercy\, a precocious young child facing a world far too big for her small body. She lives with her Windrush generation parents in a crowded household where her mother’s attention is stretched between church and family\, and her father’s temper is something to be endured or avoided. \nFeeling like an outsider within her own home\, Mercy retreats into books and the companionship of her beloved doll\, Dolly\, while learning early how to navigate the flaws and failings of the adults around her. Yet Mercy is nothing if not resilient. Armed with humour\, style and fierce imagination\, she quietly begins to plot her escape from a traumatic childhood. \nRaw and deeply affecting\, Mercy’s story is one of Black British culture\, childhood\, family and survival in 1960s Britain. Critical to understanding these untold stories\, Marcia’s debut is not to be missed.
URL:https://www.pickeringbooktree.co.uk/event/hawthorn-club-july-2026/
LOCATION:Pickering Book Tree\, 43a Market Place\, Pickering\, YO18 7AE
CATEGORIES:Book Club,Hawthorn Club,Meet at the Book Tree
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