Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current.

 So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright. Mamah, a learned, lovely woman, scandalized Chicago when she left her husband and two young children to flee to Europe with Wright — who left behind a wife and six children of his own. The two fell in love in 1907, while Wright was building a “prairie house” for Mamah and and her husband in Oak Park.

Loving Frank even has its own website: http://www.randomhouse.com/rhpg/lovingfrank/ with oodles of info and, my favourite, a letter to librarians!

Read a review from the New York Times and a review from The independent

Book browse has some book club questions, as does Lit lovers

You can read more about Frank Lloyd Wright on Wikipedia (though I must say from his photo that he doesn't quite look like a man you'd run off with!)

There have been a few probs with folks getting hold of the book so let us know if you need a hand.

Where will we meet? 6.30 at Lamaro's, 273 Cecil Street, South Melbourne

Discussing 19 minutes

Well, we had a lovely evening discussing 19 minutes. There were certainly mixed responses - from 'absolutely loathed it', 'kinda not impressed' and a single 'loved it'. But the company was great and the food delicious (fish and chips yum!) though the venue was deemed to be just a leetle too far from the rest of the world for some of us. We're looking into somewhere new that may be a bit closer to the city. Send through any suggestions please.

Next book: Loving Frank by Nancy Horan.