Self Space
Book Club
We love books here at Self Space – in fact our founders even wrote one (humble brag).
Books, whatever their form, are stories. And in these stories, we find comfort, escapism, joy and so much more. Through these stories, we are heard, we learn and we connect.
Our book club is all about connection, creating a community of book lovers looking for hearty discussion and story-tellin’ kinship.
What can you expect?
Picture this: cosy get-togethers at Self Space Soho, led by our lovely therapist and psychoeducation facilitator, Kate Hogan.
We’re talking readings, discussions that’ll make you ponder, Deep & Meaningful convo starters, drinks, snacks, and plenty of friendly chit-chat.
This month's pick
“Intermezzo” by Sally Rooney
‘An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family—but especially love—from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.
Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.
Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties – successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women – his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.
Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.
For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude – a period of desire, despair and possibility – a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.’
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No membership fees, just bookish glee.
