Poor Cow
Our book group choice for November 2025 is Poor Cow by Nell Dunn. Poor Cow offers a raw, unsentimental portrait of Joy, a working-class young woman struggling to survive in the impoverished corners of Swinging Sixties London. The narrative is told largely through Joy’s vibrant, ungrammatical, first-person voice, interspersed with third-person commentary and her badly-spelt letters from prison, giving the […]

