Book Club: September
About the AV Book Club
If you enjoy reading fiction and would like to have an incentive to read more, expand your reading list, and to meet with others to share your thoughts and insights and to hear others' perspectives, consider joining the AV Book Club for your next literary adventure. We read and discuss work by autistic authors as well as non-autistic authors.
This month, we will discuss The Framed Women of Ardemore House by Brandy Schillace
A sharp, savvy mystery about an autistic editor who inherits a crumbling English estate, only to find herself at the centre of a murder investigation when a family portrait vanishes and a dead body turns up.
Jo Jones has always had a little trouble fitting in. As a neurodivergent, hyperlexic book editor and divorced New Yorker transplanted into the English countryside, Jo doesn’t know what stands out more: her Americanisms or her autism.
After losing her job, her mother, and her marriage all in one year, she couldn’t be happier to take possession of a possibly haunted (and clearly unwanted) family estate in North Yorkshire. But when the body of the moody town groundskeeper turns up on her rug with three bullets in his back, Jo finds herself in potential danger—and she’s also a potential suspect. At the same time, a peculiar family portrait vanishes from a secret room in the manor, bearing a strange connection to both the dead body and Jo’s mysterious family history.
With the aid of a Welsh antiques dealer, the morose local detective, and the Irish innkeeper’s wife, Jo embarks on a mission to clear herself of blame and find the missing painting, unearthing a slew of secrets about the town—and herself—along the way. And she’ll have to do it all before the killer strikes again…
How to access this book
Cost: $5 for AV members, $10 for non-members.
Become an AV member today to access discounted tickets for groups and events, members-only programs and interest groups, and to support all the wonderful work our volunteers and staff team do for our community.
If cost is a barrier, please contact AV admin.
All attendees must register before attending an AV activity.
For online activities, you will need to register to receive the Zoom meeting link.
Community Guides (step by step information to support our community)
For more information
-
Call 0480 385 710, or email our AV admin team.
-
The AV phone is switched on from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Thursday.
-
Tech and admin support for after-hours activities is available by phone call only an hour before the activity start time and for the first hour of the activity.
-
Please note that our email inbox is not monitored outside business hours.
AV Groups Way
AV Privacy Policy
AV Event Terms & Conditions
