Monthly culture: February 2020

14FEB20: Birds of Prey, West India Quay Cineworld
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16FEB20: David Copperfield, Greenwich Picturehouse
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22FEB20: Haydn, 'Nelson Mass', St Martin-in-the-Fields
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22FEB20: Emma, Greenwich Picturehouse
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2020/020: Ormeshadow -- Priya Sharma

2020/020: Ormeshadow -- Priya Sharma

A hundred things, viewed through new eyes, made a mockery of his life. Furtive glances and whispers. The anger and coldness that fell around him for no reason, surprising him at unexpected moments. The confusion and the double meanings. [loc. 1356]

Gideon is seven when, with his parents, he leaves behind the life he knew in Bath and goes to live at Ormeshadow. The farmhouse is home to his uncle Thomas and family: there is old tension between Thomas and Gideon's father John, and a different tension between Thomas, his wife Maud and Gideon's mother Clare. ( no major spoilers )