OE Book Club | December| Coraline

Held in person at Oxford Exchange on the second Tuesday of every month. This book club focuses on literary novels that stand the test of time and inspire thoughtful discussion.

Books are available in-person at the Oxford Exchange bookstore, or purchase through our online shop.

Coraline | Neil Gaiman

Please note: this month's gathering is our annual book gift swap! Please bring a wrapped book you loved reading to swap. Spread the word!

The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring....
In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.
The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline unlocks the door to find a passage to another flat in another house just like her own.
Only it's different.
At first, things seem marvelous in the other flat. The food is better. The toy box is filled with wind-up angels that flutter around the bedroom, books whose pictures writhe and crawl and shimmer, little dinosaur skulls that chatter their teeth. But there's another mother, and another father, and they want Coraline to stay with them and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.
Other children are trapped there as well, lost souls behind the mirrors. Coraline is their only hope of rescue. She will have to fight with all her wits and all the tools she can find if she is to save the lost children, her ordinary life, and herself.
Critically acclaimed and award-winning author Neil Gaiman will delight readers with his first novel for all ages.

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