March 2025 Book Group - For Thy Great Pain, Have Mercy On My Little Pain

Join us for our Book Group on Thursday 20th March 2025 at 6.30pm!

Buy a copy of the book to reserve your slot. 

About For Thy Great Pain, Have Mercy On My Little Pain:

An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives of women - by a major new talent.

In the year of 1413, two women meet for the first time in Norwich.

Before they part, Julian will entrust Margery with a secret – one that will change the course of history.

‘You will read it in no time but be thinking about it for ages after’ FRANK COTTRELL-BOYCE, GUARDIAN, Book of the day

'Miraculously conjured ... Brilliantly done' THE TIMES, Book of the Month

'The best first novel I've read in years ... So full and so vivid; it is amazing' RODDY DOYLE

'A vibrant portrait of female courage' OBSERVER

‘A novel of rare brightness and clarity, concise and yet capacious: it illuminates like a shaft of sunlight’ IMOGEN HERMES GOWAR