Sun 27 Jul
|Surrey Hills Wellfest
Book Club at Surrey Hills Wellfest
Monthly book club. Read this month’s book, join the club to share notes and have a relaxed discussion about what you thought :)
Time & Location
27 Jul 2025, 14:00 – 15:00 BST
Surrey Hills Wellfest, Ockham Rd S, East Horsley, Leatherhead KT24 6DT, UK
About the event
We are lucky to be hosting our July book talk on ’The Summer Book’ by Tove Jansson at the Surrey Hills WellFest!
We will still be meeting at 2pm for our discussion by the book swap tent within the festival which is on Sunday 27th July at De here Horsley Towers (10am-6pm)l. Everyone welcome to join, tickets to the event are £5 but alongside our book swap stall there will be other stalls, talks and workshops.
To find out more about the festival please visit https://www.surreyhillswellfest.org.
We look forward to seeing you there!
"The Summer Book" By Tove Jansson
An elderly artist and her six-year-old grand-daughter while away a summer together on a tiny
island in the gulf of Finland. As the two learn to adjust to each other's fears, whims and
yearnings, a fierce yet understated love emerges - one that encompasses not only the
summer inhabitants but the very island itself. Written in a clear, unsentimental style, full of
brusque humour, and wisdom, The Summer Book is a profoundly life-affirming story. Tove
Jansson captured much of her own life and spirit in the book, which was her favourite of her
adult novels.
Upcoming Book Clubs
Sun Aug 31st: "The Bees" By Carol Ann Duffy
Sun Sep 28th: "Yellowface" By Rebecca F. Kuang
Sun Oct 26th: "The Spring of Kasper Meier" By Ben Fergusson
Sun Nov 30th: "The Nightingale" By Kristin Hannah