Frank Foley
FRANK FOLEY

Whitstable Study Groups
Summer Schedule 2024
Free Weekly Short Story Groups
Monday afternoons at 2 pm
See below for venue!
"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
24th July, 2 - 3 pm (UK) - The Kitchen Cafe, High Street, Whitstable (Garden!)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a short story, poet, novelist, Utopian feminist, and social reformer.
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She is best known for her 1892 story, "The Yellow-Wallpaper" an important work of feminist literature dealing with the human need for self-expression, and patriarchal attitudes to women's mental and physical health.
Summer Short Courses (3-weeks)
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
3 sessions from Friday 11th August 2023, 10 am - 12 noon (UK) - Cafe Thirty Nine, High St, Whitstable

Michael Ondaatje is a Canadian poet, novelist and film-maker, born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1943. He has published seven novels and a number of poetry collections, and won the Booker Prize in 1992 for his novel, The English Patient.
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Set in Italy during the Second World War, the novel interweaves the stories of four disparate characters as they try to make sense of their broken lives. The novel addresses questions of identity and character, and the context in which this is judged, as well as issues of race, ownership and boundaries, and the importance of stories.
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
3 Session from Friday 12th May 2023, 10 am - 12 noon (UK) - Umbrella Centre, Whitstable

July 1956. Darlington Hall has a new American owner. Lord Darlington is dead, and his butler, Stevens, carries on as he always has.
But change stirs memory, and Stevens will soon begin a journey that will take him out of the house and into recollections of the past, forcing him, for the first time in years, to re-evaluate his life and missed opportunities.
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In this 3-week course we will explore Ishiguro's understated and deceptive novel, reading between the lines and under the surfaces to explore issues of memory and the past, repression and suppression, and unreliable narration.​
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
JUN23
3 sessions from Friday 10th March 2023, 10 am - 12 noon (UK)

Elizabeth Strout won the Pulitzer Prize for her wonderful 2009 book Olive Kitteridge. Marketed as a novel, but more accurately described as a collection of linked short stories, Olive Kitteridge is a superb work of fiction.
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In this session, we'll focus on the story, "Incoming Tide" an exquisitely crafted story dealing with unbearable pain, death, love, opportune moments, and the value of human connection.
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
JUL23
3 sessions from Friday 3rd February 2023, 10 am - 12 noon (UK) - Umbrella Centre, Whitstable

Michael Ondaatje is a Canadian poet, novelist and film-maker, born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1943. He has published seven novels and a number of poetry collections, and won the Booker Prize in 1992 for his novel, The English Patient.
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Set in Italy during the Second World War, the novel interweaves the stories of four disparate characters as they try to make sense of their broken lives. The novel addresses questions of identity and character, and the context in which this is judged, as well as issues of race, ownership and boundaries, and the importance of stories.