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We are a group of TVIH members who love and enjoy books. 
We read both fiction and nonfiction.  Books are selected as a joint decision by the group membership.
  Our discussions are always stimulating and lively.  We enthusiastically invite you to join our group.

October's book is "A Wilder Shore by Camille Peri"
This discussion will be led by: Nancy

The romance between Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson was an unlikely Victorian love he was an ambitious but drifting college-educated writer from a prominent family in Scotland; she was a forceful and determined farm girl from Indiana with a high school education. She was married, with children, and 10 years his senior when they met in France in 1876. How could a union between them work?

A Wilder Shore is a portrait of these two extraordinary people and a nuanced examination of the improbable union that stimulated, frustrated and ultimately sustained them. The book travels the world with the couple as they seek better health for him, a looser lifestyle and more creative freedom, beginning in an art colony outside Paris and ending in Samoa, where they lived and joined the native islanders’ fight for independence from imperialist powers. Along the way, the ferment of the Stevensons’ deeply loving but stormy marriage produced literary masterpieces by Robert such as Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Zoom link will be provided upon registration.