Elthamread

What is Elthamread?

The aim of the Elthamread is to encourage everyone in SE9 to read the same book, and then come together at various events in the autumn to talk about it.

Elthamread was launched in 2016 by local author Wendy Moore and is now co-ordinated by a committee including Eltham Library manager Marina Manoharan.

The event is supported by SEnine Magazine, Better and Triptych Design.

‘These Streets’ by Luan Goldie

From the author of Nightingale Point, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, comes a thought-provoking novel.

Jess is a single mother to two teenage children, and although life can be tough, she’s just about keeping things together. But when her landlord asks her to move on without warning, so he can sell the house they’re living in, Jess’s worries take on a whole new meaning.

As she struggles to regain her footing, cracks begin to appear in other areas of her life, and suddenly she feels she’s failing at everything. Her daughter Hazel is becoming more and more distant, her son Jacob is struggling to find where he fits in the world, and the menacing spectre of Jess’s older brother, someone she cut out of her life years ago, begins to make his presence felt again.

Jess knows she’s the only one who can keep her family together, but how can she keep going when life keeps beating her back? Set on the streets of London, These Streets is a searing and powerful novel that explores how we are meant to find our place in a world that is designed for only the privileged to succeed.

Beautiful and honest, it is an essential story about living in Britain today.