Feminist Reading Group

Welcome to the Feminist Fiction Reading Group!

Every two months, we will meet in the bookshop to discuss a fantastic piece of literature written by a female author. The first group of 2025 will be this February and the book will be Megan Hunter's debut, The End We Start From.

Days after giving birth, a mother and child are forced to leave home in search of safety. The journey north with be dangerous - but new life and fresh hope push them on . . .

A startlingly beautiful story of a family's survival, The End We Start From is a haunting but hopeful dystopian vision of a familiar world made dangerous and unstable.

'A shot of distilled story . . . engrossing, compelling and finally hopeful' -- Naomi Alderman, author of The Power, winner of the 2017 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction

'The End We Start From is strange and powerful, and very apt for these uncertain times. I was moved, terrified, uplifted - sometimes all three at once. It takes skill to manage that, and Hunter has a poet's understanding of how to make each word count.' -- Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl With a Pearl Earring