South London Feminist Book Club - 'Notes on an Execution' by Danya Kukafka

🎉 Join us for our February book club! 🎉
Come along on Thursday 19 February to The Sun in Clapham Old Town from 7pm to meet our book club, and discuss Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka.
✨ Event Details ✨
📅 Date: Thursday 19 February
⏰ Time: 7:00–9:30pm
📍 Location: The Sun pub (upstairs), Clapham Old Town
🎟️ Refunds & Tickets:
While we’re unable to offer refunds, if you can’t make it, your ticket can be transferred to a future event
ABOUT THIS MONTH'S BOOK -
Turning the serial killer narrative on its head, Kukafka's searing and intelligent second novel focuses on three women whose lives are irrevocably changed by their contact with a brutal murderer on death row.

for January 2023

Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours.

He knows what he's done, and now awaits the same fate he forced on those girls, years ago. Ansel doesn't want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood.

But this is not his story.

As the clock ticks down, three women uncover the history of a tragedy and the long shadow it casts. Lavender, Ansel's mother, is a seventeen-year-old girl pushed to desperation. Hazel, twin sister to his wife, is forced to watch helplessly as the relationship threatens to devour them all. And Saffy, the detective hot on his trail, is devoted to bringing bad men to justice but struggling to see her own life clearly.

This is the story of the women left behind. Blending breathtaking suspense with astonishing empathy, Notes On An Execution presents a chilling portrait of womanhood as it unravels the familiar narrative of the American serial killer, interrogating our cultural obsession with crime stories, and asking readers to consider the false promise of looking for meaning in the minds of violent men.

Ticket prices:

Tickets for this event are £13. If you cannot afford them then just drop us an email at: [email protected] and we'll see what we can do.

Refund policy:

We are over the moon that our events are becoming so popular, so because of that we have made are operating a no refund policy. We are more than happy for you to use your ticket for a future book club, or to give your ticket to a fellow book club member, but as of 2024 - we will no longer giving refunds. Apologies in advance!

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