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A lonely American girl living in Scotland advertises a book group in a local shop window to help her meet people. For the first meeting she has a strange mix of people arrive for the discussion.
- (1K)
- 2002-04-12
- Comedy, Drama
- 24
The Book Group is a British comedy drama that was broadcast on Channel 4 between 2002 and 2003 and ran for two seasons. It was written and directed by the American-born, Glasgow resident Annie Griffin, who also wrote and directed Festival. It was the winner of two BAFTA Scotland awards.
- Sitcom
Clare Pettengill arrives in Glasgow from Cincinnati and, in order to meet new, intellectually minded friends, establishes a book club whose members will discuss a new work each week. A group member is inspired to dump her beau after reading a book by Paolo Coehlo.
The group comprises local Janice, Dutch Fist and Swedish Dirka ,the wives or partners of top footballers, the taciturn wheelchair-bound Kenny, who is writing a book of his own, pretentious upper-class Barney, who turns down Clare's offer of sex and laddish Rab.
After recently moving from America to Glasgow, Scotland, Clare Pettengill starts a book group in order to find new friends with similar interests. But she is surprised by the people she...
- Anne Dudek
- 2
Jackie sacks Rab and returns home, dismissive of Janice's good news that she has started as a reporter. At the book group Jean is dominant and Dirka and Fist are not especially welcoming to Carol Ann. Feeling that they are kindred spirits and both used by Jackie, Janice and Rab leave the group and start kissing.
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Clare, a neurotic American, moves to Glasgow and starts a book group to meet new, interesting people. But Kenny, Dirka, Rab, Fist and Janice are more interesting than she bargained for...
