21 Aldgate: February 2013

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

UPCOMING BOOK TALKS / MARCH / APRIL 2013

MARCH 9th

AAUW LUNCHEON
(American Association of University Women)
University Club, Winter Park, FLorida

SPEAKER AT THIS YEAR’S SPRING LITERARY LUNCHEON

Patricia Friedberg will discuss her novel: 21 ALDGATE

Saturday, March 9, 2013, at 11:30 a.m.

The University Club of Winter Park

841 N. Park Avenue, Winter Park, FL

(At the intersection of N. Park Avenue and Webster Avenue)

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UPCOMING BOOK CLUB EVENTS:

MARCH 18th
6:00 pm
SAS Book Club
Dinner and Discourse
hosted by; Barbara Standish
MARCH 19th
10:00 am

Bradenton / Palmetto Book Group
Breakfast, Bites and Books
Hosted by: Karla Hager
APRIL 11th
Vina Del Mar Readers Group

NEWCOMERS BOOK CLUB of SARASOTA

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12th, 2013

Thank you all for a most energizing meeting last Tuesday; an afternoon of brilliant and lively discussion; insights into the characters, life as it was during the war years in Britain...and finally and dramatically... the waste of war.

Thanks especially to Diane Briganti, if it hadn't been for our chance meeting at LaGuardia Airport in New York some months ago...this meeting and her club's book choice of 21 ALDGATE, might never have been.

Thanks, too to Gerry Nussbaum who hosted the meeting with exquisite taste in elegant surroundings.

Become a follower....something my Mother told me never to be... it has new connotations now, so, let us hear from you...both in your reviews on Amazon and posted as comments right here on our website.

About the Author Patricia Friedberg

British-born author Patricia Friedberg grew up in London during World War II. She attended the Henrietta Barnett School and later the London School of Journalism. Soon after her marriage, the Friedbergs left England to live for many years in South Africa and in the Rhodesias - now Zambia and Zimbabwe - where Dr. Friedberg practiced medicine and where she was a journalist and writer of documentaries for the Rhodesian Newspapers and Rhodesian Television.

Due to civil unrest and for the safety of their children, the family came to America, where Mrs. Friedberg attended university and wrote columns for community and organizational papers, and hosted a television talk show, '"People of the Book," for the NBC affiliate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

In addition to her talent as a writer and journalist, Mrs. Friedberg has composed music for theatre, written prose for a ballet and has travelled extensively with her husband, a professor of cardiology who lectured around the world.

She has co-authored with her daughter, Adrienne, two illustrated children’s books, Dear Sammie, A Letter to a child of Divorcing parents, and Dear Jake.

She is the mother of four children, each born in a different country, grandmother of eight, and now has three great-grandsons.

Synopsis

When young Clara Simon suddenly quit her steady job in Ernest Maxwell Abbott's law firm over his increasingly shabby treatment of Jewish clients, she soon realized the seriousness of her actions. Giving up any job in struggling, post-WWI London meant taking a chance.

Clara knew her family at 21 Aldgate would not be supportive. With that in mind she did the only thing a Londoner could do: she looked for a quiet place to have a cup of tea and think over her hasty decision. A coincidental meeting with a former Abbott employee resulted in the suggestion of a job offer in Chelsea.

Clara, reluctant to consider venturing into affluent Chelsea, finally agreed to meet with the important French artist, Paul Maze, who needed an assistant to help write his memoir of his work as a field artist during the First World War. Their working relationship ignited a passionate love that forever changed and haunted her.

On the tides of political and social chaos prior to the Second World War, Clara was forced to make decisions that risked both her life and her marriage.