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FoCL Newsletter - Autumn 2014
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Message from the Chair - Anne Tarrant
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FoCL members, Jane Beale and Rosie Gannon, have produced take-home leaflets for primary school children, and
secondary school students, and their parents in Chepstow.
The leaflets briefly outline the facilities and services available at the library, and have been distributed to all primary
schools. Distribution to all secondary schools will have taken
place prior to the October half term break.
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Many of you will have followed the ups and downs of contestants on TV in the recent Great British Bake Off. As a contribution to the librarys 21st birthday celebrations in December, FoCL members are producing an recipe book (coordinated by John Goodwin and Liz Winstanley) to be sold at
a modest cost. Whereas cake recipes will be most welcome,
the book aims to offer a range of your favourite recipes from
starters, to mains, to puddings. Please send your contribution via e mail, and more than one very welcome, or bring it
in to Diane Sullivan at the Library.
The author has said that this sequel novel can be read without necessarily reading the first book The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry first. I am not sure I agree, and I am glad
I was able to read them in sequence. Partially, in the
Harold novel, but fully in the new novel, Queenie is revealed as an Oxbridge educated woman who has been unable to settle on a career or in relationships and who has
ended up working in jobs that are below her capacity, experiencing a series of unsatisfactory relationships. Her attempt
to move on from the last of these ends with her on a beach in
South Devon with nowhere to go. Queenie finds work as an
accountant at the brewery in Kingsbridge, where she meets
Harold, one of the sales reps. They fall in to an almost deliberately unrequited love, self acknowledged more readily by
Queenie than by the married Harold, but with neither of
them acknowledging their feelings to each other. Queenie
leaves Kingsbridge under a cloud having taken the blame for
Harolds destructive episode at the brewery following his
only son Davids suicide. She ends up - again on a beach - in
Berwick on Tweed - and re-builds her life, as well as the
beach hut she lives in, surrounded by her sea garden,
somewhat withdrawn from the world, with just superficial
relationships with passing tourists but with closer and practical barter and exchange relationships with the locals. She
has achieved a basis for day to day happiness, albeit with regret for what might have been with Harold, and regrets
about what remained unsaid between them, including her
friendship with David. Tragically she develops a brain tumour which becomes cancerous.
FoCL Contacts
Chair: Anne Tarrant - E mail: snowdogs@live.com
Newsletter: Adrian Quinn - adrianquinn2@aol.co.uk