Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis | The South London Book Club

Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis | The South London Book Club

Join us at The Roundhouse for some fundamentally stimulating conversation!

By The South London Book Club

Date and time

Tuesday, May 6 · 7 - 9pm GMT+1

Location

The Roundhouse

2 North Side Wandsworth Common London SW18 2SS United Kingdom

About this event

  • Event lasts 2 hours

After putting it to a vote in March, our May book club meet will discuss Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis!

What got our vote? Well, the description of the book did!

Nadia is an academic who's been disowned by her puritanical mother and dumped by her lover, Rosy. She decides to make a getaway, accepting a UN job in Iraq. Tasked with rehabilitating ISIS women, Nadia becomes mired in the opaque world of international aid, surrounded by bumbling colleagues.

Sara is a precocious and sweary East Londoner who joined ISIS at just fifteen.

Nadia is struck by how similar they are: both feisty and opinionated, from a Muslim background, with a shared love of Dairy Milk and rude pick-up lines. A powerful friendship forms between the two women, until a secret confession from Sara threatens everything Nadia has been working for.

A bitingly original, wildly funny and razor-sharp exploration of love, family, religion and the decisions we make in pursuit of belonging, Fundamentally upends and explores a defining controversy of our age with heart, complexity and humour.

Can't go wrong, can we?

  • All are welcome
  • Please make sure you've done your best to read the book before attending!
  • Please bring a suggestion for our next read

If you would like to listen to Fundamentally as an audiobook, you can get 30% off at Spiracle Audiobooks using code EMILY30 at checkout:

https://www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/audiobooks/fundamentally

(Emily is the organiser of SLBC and in her professional life is the Marketing Manager at Spiracle Audiobooks)

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Hi everyone,

We are a relaxed, friendly and not too serious book club based in Clapham and we meet on the first Tuesday of every month at The Roundhouse pub.

We also run Online every third Tuesday of the month with a different book.

Our events at The Roundhouse are run by Emily. David and Rob do the online session.

We plan events two months out: if you cannot make the next event look through the list of forthcoming meetings to see if a subsequent date is more convenient.

In addition we regularly attend The Roundhouse pub quiz as a team and have enjoyed days out including the British Library, the Reading Room of the British Museum and the Dickens Museum. If there is something bookish in London that you have always wanted to visit, we might be the Group for you!

Note that the number of registered attendees for an event isn't a great guide to the number that will join us. Many regulars get the book, read it, then sign up to come along in the days before our meeting. We are typically six or seven on the night for the in-person events at The Roundhouse.

Please bring an idea for next month's book (which you haven't already read!), and we'd love to see you there.

Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions about how it works.

South London Book Club