Night Owl Book Club - Background for Love - 13th February
Join us for a special Night Owl book club this Galentine's Day, Thursday 13th February, when we'll be meeting at the bookshop at 8 pm to discuss Background for Love, by Helen Wolff.
Purchase a copy of the book from Night Owl Books and receive a free ticket for our book club event - while spaces last!
Copies are available for collection from the bookshop, or alternatively, please select a shipping option to have the book posted to you.
Held on the eve of Valentine's Day, Galentine's Day is a modern holiday that celebrates women's friendship - a perfect excuse to meet for a book club, and to read Background for Love, a heady, rapturous novel of love and self-discovery in the south of France written by famed publisher Helen Wolff, and based on her early life with Kurt Wolff.
About the book:
In a giddy rush, a young woman and her older lover escape the rising fascism of 1930s Berlin for a summer vacation on the Côte d'Azur. As they drive along stunning bays and linger over sumptuous meals, they are enchanted by each other. But their harmony soon falters, and the woman decides she must leave in search of a cottage of her own near Saint-Tropez.
There, amid the vineyards and lemon trees, she will forge startling new connections and pass an unforgettable summer of independence and freedom.
Background for Love is an autobiographical novel by the great publisher Helen Wolff, who together with her husband, Kurt Wolff, set up Pantheon Books in America after fleeing Nazi Germany. In the fascinating companion essay, historian Marion Detjen, the author's great-niece, delves into the basis of the novel in Helen's own life as well as the political and social forces that led her to abandon hope of publishing it.
Written in 1932 and now translated into English for the first time by the author's grandson, Tristram Wolff, this is a lushly atmospheric, irresistible story of passion and self-discovery, told from the cusp of disaster.
Hardback, 224 pages, published June 2024.
FAQs
- I already have a copy of Background for Love - is it possible to get a ticket without the book?
No problem! Please let me know by writing a note when adding the ticket to your cart (click 'Add a note to your order', and write a message in the box before checking out). You'll receive a credit of £16.99 to spend on another book of your choice at Night Owl.
- Where will we be meeting?
The event will be held at Night Owl Books, 1 Bridge Street, East Linton, EH40 3AG.
- We'd like to attend as a couple and share a copy of the book - is that possible?
Of course! Please select two tickets, and let me know by writing a note when adding the ticket to your cart. You can pick up one copy of the book from Night Owl and receive a credit of £16.99 to spend on another book of your choice.
A note on Covid precautions: if you can, please take a lateral before attending, and if you feel unwell on the day, please err on the side of caution.