This month’s Health Chat sees us thinking about National Grief Awareness Week. We know that this time of year can be difficult for many of us. We wanted to share resources on the topic of bereavement, grief and wellbeing. There Read More …
Category: Wellbeing
GEH Wellbeing Reading Group review for Pine by Francine Toon
This debut novel was billed as a literary gothic thriller to chill the marrow. So, did it deliver for our wellbeing reading group at George Eliot hospital? Kind of yes, kind of no. It was a novel that divided the Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group book review – All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle
All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle is a book about loneliness, loss, and perseverance. Hubert Bird, an 84 year old Jamaican immigrant, and the lead character of the story, hides his loneliness from his daughter Rose’s weekly phone calls Read More …
SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group is here!
This month’s meeting was an introduction to the SWFT Wellbeing Reading Group and an opportunity for members to discuss books they’ve been reading recently, or particular authors they enjoy. While we all admitted to being busy, it was agreed that Read More …
GEH Wellbeing Reading Group book review- The Library by Bella Osborne
What a successful book choice! Most of our readers loved The Library by author Bella Osborne, citing it as an easy to read, feel-good book. Our readers reported being engaged all the way through, laughing, and enjoying getting to know Read More …
George Eliot Wellbeing Reading Group Book Review- How to Kill Your Best Friend
Our reading group was lucky enough to be gifted a set of books from The Reading Agency this month, so we all settled down to read the brand-new crime novel How to kill your best friend by Lexie Elliott. Telling Read More …
Wellbeing reading group review of My Mother, Munchausen’s and Me.
We’re such a lucky bunch here at the wellbeing reading group! Last week we welcomed our third author to our virtual reading group meeting. This time the fantastic Helen Naylor author of My mother, Munchausen’s and me came along to Read More …
Luckenbooth- A Reading Group Review
A small but perfectly formed wellbeing reading group from GEH and SWFT met this month to discuss an intriguing read- the dark and unusual Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan. To begin with half our number admitted they hadn’t finished the book, Read More …
Wellbeing Reading Group- World Book Day and the Queen as sleuth!
This month our Wellbeing Reading Group virtual meeting coincided with World Book Day. Unlike many children dressed up for the day in their favourite fictional characters there were no headscarves, crowns or tiaras on show during our discussion of The Read More …
Have mercy! Reading Group review of The Mercies.
Have mercy! Our latest reading group saw an animated discussion of The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. A dramatic historical work set in the 1600s on a remote Norwegian island, the book takes us through how a community of women Read More …