OSO Book Club 2026: Heat Wave by Penelope Lively
Friday 12 June · 13:00–14:30
- Price
- TBC — on booking site
- Format
- Booking required
- Where
- The OSO
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About this event
Fuel your love of reading! Join our monthly Book Club to meet fellow bookworms, explore a diverse ranges of novels and share your thoughts over a cup of coffee in our cosy Café. Published in Penguin Modern Classics, Penelope Lively's Heat Wave is a moving portrayal of a fragile family damaged and defined by adultery, and the lengths to which a mother will go to protect the ones she loves. Pauline is spending the summer at World's End, a cottage somewhere in the middle of England. This year the adjoining cottage is occupied by her daughter Teresa and baby grandson Luke; and, of course, Maurice, the man Teresa married. As the hot months unfold, Maurice grows ever more involved in the book he is writing - and with his female copy editor - and Pauline can only watch in dismay and anger as her daughter repeats her own mistakes in love. The heat and tension will lead to a violent, startling climax. Penelope Lively (b. 1933) was born in Cairo. She has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize; once in 1977 for her first novel, The Road to Lichfield , and again in 1984 for According to Mark . She later won the 1987 Booker Prize for her highly acclaimed novel Moon Tiger . Her novels include Passing On , City of the Mind , Cleopatra's Sister and Heat Wave , and many are published by Penguin. The books are all available at the Barnes Book Shop who are kindly offering a 10% discount off each monthly book on production of your ticket for each session. Kindly supported by the Barnes Lite
Getting there
The OSO
Station Road, Barnes, London SW13 0LF
4 min walk from Barnes
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