“This Must be the Place” by Maggie O’Farrell
“This Must be the Place” by Maggie O’Farrell
If you haven’t noticed, it’s the award season in the film world with Oscar and Bafta nominations for the best film and TV programmes from 2025 being discussed.
To start our December Page Turner meeting, a vote was taken to decide the best book we have read in 2025…and the winner was: This Must be the Place, by Maggie O’Farrell.
There are plenty of award ceremonies in the book world: the Booker Prize, Costa Novel Award, Pulitzer Prize for fiction etc. and now Wenvoe has its very own book award! The Wenvoe Page Turner BOAT prize. BOAT? The Page Turners choice for the Book of All Time. Our favourite ever read, from the 100 plus books we have read since our inaugural meeting over 10 years ago. The nominations, chosen by the 10 current members, were:
Where the Crawdads Sing
The Paris Wife
The Bell in the Lake
The Island of Missing Trees
The Seal Women’s Gift
The Marriage Portrait
…and the winner was…The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting, a story of mystery, history, relationships and intrigue set in 19th century Norway.
Do you agree with our choices of the winning books? Maybe not but that’s what reading and book clubs are all about, welcoming and celebrating and discussing the diverse nature of literature that is available for us to read
After all the discussions and voting for the two books, it was time for Secret Santa to provide everyone with their latest read over the Christmas period and eat some well-earned mince pies!
Happy reading in 2026