Fiction Book Group reads: Carol (The Price of Salt) by Patricia Highsmith

About this event

Our book group is open to all. Attend every meeting, occasionally or just once in your life. All we ask is that you read the book in advance and take part in the discussion. There’s a short introduction by a member of staff, a group regular, or someone we know with a special interest in the book in question. This is a casual group discussion, there is no author or presentation.

For May we’ll be reading and talking about Carol by Patricia Highsmith.

The Price of Salt (later republished under the title Carol) is a 1952 romance novel by Patricia Highsmith, first published under the pseudonym “Claire Morgan.” Highsmith used an alias as she did not want to be tagged as “a lesbian-book writer”, and she also used her own life references for characters and occurrences in the story.

Although Highsmith wrote over 22 novels and numerous short stories and had many sexual and romantic relationships with women, The Price of Salt is her only novel about an unequivocal lesbian relationship

Refreshments provided

Our book groups – Fiction and our Irish book club(monthly), Pagan (bi-monthly), Non-Fiction (quarterly)