Emily's Hampstead Heath Walking Book Club - Sept - The Talented Mr Ripley

In the first thriller ever to be discussed by Emily’s Walking Book Club, we follow Tom Ripley - fiction’s most terrifying con man - as he leaves behind his past as a ‘sissy’ to pursue playboy Dickie Greenleaf, who’s enjoying a glamorous life in Italy. Psychologically fascinating and deeply unsettling, this classic noir points to the Ripley latent in all of us, as we consider whether a psychopath really is, as Highsmith said, ‘just an average man living more clearly than the world permits him.’

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N.B. Please ensure that you have read the book BEFORE coming on the walk - or it risks spoiling the event for other walkers. If you've don't quite have time to read the book, please consider instead joining the Monday evening Zoom, for which reading the book isn't a prerequisite.

Host or Publisher Emily Rhodes