Thu, Oct 24
|Spoke and Word Books
Book Club: Her Majesty's Royal Coven
Join us for book club - we are reading Her Majesty's Royal Coven and coming together at the store to discuss.
Time & Location
Oct 24, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Spoke and Word Books, 10863 SE Main St, Milwaukie, OR 97222, USA
About the event
Join us for book club - we are reading Her Majesty's Royal Coven and coming together at the store to discuss. Light refreshments will be provided.
Tickets are $7, free for Hardcover Hero members, and free if you purchased the book from us, see you there!
About Her Majesty's Royal Coven:
A Discovery of Witches meets The Craft in this epic fantasy about a group of childhood friends who are also witches.
If you look hard enough at old photographs, we're there in the background: healers in the trenches; Suffragettes; Bletchley Park oracles; land girls and resistance fighters. Why is it we help in times of crisis? We have a gift. We are stronger than Mundanes, plain and simple. At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of the summer solstice, four young girls--Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle--took the oath to join Her Majesty's Royal Coven, established by Queen Elizabeth I as a covert government department. Now, decades later, the witch community is still reeling from a civil war and Helena is the reigning High Priestess of the organization. Yet Helena is the only one of her friend group still enmeshed in the stale bureaucracy of HMRC. Elle is trying to pretend she's a normal housewife, and Niamh has become a country vet, using her powers to heal sick animals. In what Helena perceives as the deepest betrayal, Leonie has defected to start her own more inclusive and intersectional coven, Diaspora. And now Helena has a bigger problem. A young warlock of extraordinary capabilities has been captured by authorities and seems to threaten the very existence of HMRC. With conflicting beliefs over the best course of action, the four friends must decide where their loyalties lie: with preserving tradition, or doing what is right.
Juno Dawson explores gender and the corrupting nature of power in a delightful and provocative story of magic and matriarchy, friendship and feminism. Dealing with all the aspects of contemporary womanhood, as well as being phenomenally powerful witches, Niamh, Helena, Leonie and Elle may have grown apart but they will always be bound by the sisterhood of the coven.
Tickets
Book Club Ticket
Tickets are required to attend bookclub (mostly so we can plan for the right number of guests!). Tickets are free if you purchased the book from us, or $5 if you already have the book (or got it from the library, etc.)
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