The Enlightenment Club by Chris West

By Emma Fitzgerald -
Thank you @KellyALacey @lovebookstours #Ad #LBTCrew #BookTwitter #FreeReview #FreeBookReview #LBTContemporaryRomance For letting me be part of this tour and reviewing this book. The Enlightenment Club is an uplifting read that is about aspiration, who you are as a person, mental health difficulties and Music. The Enlightenment Club is a very easy read and I finished it in a few hours, and it was very easy to get into, and I found it to be a moving story as well. The story about Stella and starts 1974 as a teenage and then as she gets older. I liked reading about Stella life and the culture side of her life to which was very fascinating and could sit there and read about that all day. The story is well written and deals with some challenging subjects and Chris West has dealt with them very well. This is a very different book to what I normally read and was glad to read something different and I will be looking for books by Chris West in the future. 4 stars. Blurb It’s 1975. Bright, dissatisfied teenager Stella Tranter wants to learn about big things: philosophy, great art, love. Her quest leads her to the select ‘Enlightenment Cub’ and the charismatic Dr Stanislas Licht. And to trouble. Thrown out of college, she continues her search in London. Is she really cut out for being a part-time roadie for a punk band, fronted by her outrageous sister? Probably not, but being her, she gives it a go. Her ultimate goals continue to elude her, however, and she decides to settle for a quiet life with well-meaning but slightly dull Bobby. But memories of the Enlightenment Club haunt her, whispering that she must find more, do more, learn more, be more… When she meets Alex, a talented, lonely, experimental composer, she knows she must break free. But at what cost? Passion, it soon turns out, can exact a terrible price. This is a book about dreams and how tough it can be to fulfil them. It is about identity, aspiration and change. It is about music, and its power to inspire (but also, maybe, to mislead). Prizewinning author DJ Taylor has described it as ‘delicately written, with big themes boiling away beneath the surface.

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