The evening was well attended with 12 of us enjoying Carol’s hospitality on a lovely evening with cake and wine to keep us going. 
We had a lively discussion about this months book, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet written by David Mitchell.
It was deemed a hard read but one which provoked much discussion partly because of the use of so many foreign names.  It was a story set on a Dutch trading trading post on a tiny man made island off the coast of Nagasaki in 18th century Japan. It was a long and complicated story but on the whole the consensus was that it was well written and worth the effort.