Between the Lines Book Club: The Fifth Child (DPL)

If you like to read a variety of books, and if you like to discuss the books you read, consider joining our Between the Lines Book Club led by Ron Nicholson. This October, BTL is reading “The Fifth Child” by Doris Lessing. Pick up your copy from the Aurora or Dillsboro Library! 

Aurora: Thursday, October 26th @ 1 pm 

Dillsboro: Friday, October 27th @ 1 pm 

Local History Library @ the Depot: Tuesday, October 31st @ 6:30 pm 

Anyone 18+ is welcome to attend! 

“Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the social trends of late 1960s England. While around them crime and unrest surge, the Lovatts are certain that their old-fashioned contentment can protect them from the world outside—until the birth of their fifth baby. Gruesomely goblin-like in appearance, insatiably hungry, abnormally strong and violent, Ben has nothing innocent or infant-like about him. As he grows older and more terrifying, Harriet finds she cannot love him, David cannot bring himself to touch him, and their four older children are afraid of him. Understanding that he will never be accepted anywhere, Harriet and David are torn between their instincts as parents and their shocked reaction to this fierce and unlovable child whose existence shatters their belief in a benign world.” – Penguin Random House