Parnassus Book Club - The Care and Management of Lies

Please join moderator Kathy Schultenover for a discussion of Jacqueline Winspear’s book, The Care and Management of Lies.  Parnassus Book Club meetings are free and open to anyone. Buy the book, read the book and join the discussion!

By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained - by Thea’s passionate embrace of women’s suffrage and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea’s brother, Tom, who runs the family farm.  When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea’s gift to Kezia is a book on household management - a veiled criticism of the bride’s prosaic life to come.  Yet when Tom enlists to fight for his country and Thea is drawn reluctantly onto the battlefield herself, the farm becomes Kezia’s responsibility.  Each must finda a way to endure the ensuing cataclysm and turmoil.

As Tom marches to the front lines and Kezia battles to keep her ordered life from unraveling, they hide their despair in letters and cards filled with stories woven to bring comfort.  But will well-intentioned lies and self-deception be of use when they come face-to-face with the enemy?

Event date: 
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 - 6:30pm
Event address: 
Parnassus Books
3900 Hillsboro Pike Suite 14
Nashville, TN 37215
Books: 
The Care and Management of Lies: A Novel of the Great War By Jacqueline Winspear Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780062220516
Availability: Special Order - Usually Arrives in 1-5 Days
Published: Harper Perennial - June 30th, 2015