BOOK CLUB - 10:30 - 12:00 - Sunday 4th May - Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel

We're hosting book club at our shop, we'll be discussing Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel.

A copy of the book is included in your purchase. Unfortunately, we can no longer offer free drop offs, but you'll be able to collect your copy of the book from our shop for free, or opt to have it posted to you. 

The event is being held in our upstairs room, at 10:30 - 12:00 on Sunday 4th May.

If this is your first book club and you have any questions about how we operate, check out our BOOK CLUB FAQ.

If you already have the book but would like to book onto our events, please email novelsheffield@gmail.com and I'll send you a link to join if we have any capacity.

We can't wait to see you there!

THE BLURB:

Headshot is the story of the eight best teenage girl boxers in the United States, told over the two days of a championship tournament and structured as a series of face-offs. As the girls’ pasts and futures collide, the specific joy and violence of the sport comes to life with electric energy, and a portrait emerges of the desire, envy, perfectionism, madness and sheer physical pleasure that motivates each of these young women to fight.

This is a novel about the radicalness and strangeness of being physically intimate with another human when you are measuring your own body, through competition, against theirs. What does the intimacy of a physical competition feel like? What does it mean to walk through life in the bodies we’ve been given, and what does it mean to use those bodies with abandon?

Funny, propulsive, obsessive and ecstatic, Headshot is equal parts subtle and intense, as it brings us to the sidelines of the ring and above and beyond it, examining closely the eight girls’ lives, which intersect for a moment – a universe that shimmers and resonates.