I’m in the middle of a great book right now. I’m going to recommend it highly, even before I get to the end!

The Club At The Edge Of Town by Alan Lane is a book about people from a community in Leeds working together, across many potentially divisive barriers, and actually making things better. Despite…well, despite everything: the covid pandemic, bureaucracy, uncaring politicians, infighting, racism, oppositional viewpoints, lack of money, social distancing, and much, much more.

It is not a do-gooder book, but it will undoubtedly inspire the doing of good. Along with a dollop of hope.

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The work being done in Holbeck in Leeds is founded on three values:

Be Useful
Be Kind.

and

Everyone gets what they want, but no one else gets to stop others getting what they want.

The first two are wonderful, but hard to combine. The last one sounds impossible. But the book makes even that one seem achievable. It’s wonderful food for thought for me in regard to Homesong and to community life in general. It will be for you too.

Ps It’s also a real page turner.

Pps. Thank you Kim Le Clair for the recommendation!