The Calamity Club with Kathryn Stockett
Mon 08 Jun 2026
7:00pm at The Mission Theatre, 32 Corn St, Bath BA1 1UF
Book + Ticket gives you 1 ticket with a copy of the book included, all tickets include 15% off any books purchased on the night, and author talk, and signing.
Other ways to book:
Email books@mrbsemporium.com, call 01225 331155 or pop into the shop at 14-15 John Street, Bath. BA1 2JL.
It’s been 17 years since Kathryn Stockett’s The Help was published, selling 15 million copies worldwide, and adapted into a highly acclaimed film starring Emma Stone, Viola Davies, Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain.
Now, Kathryn Stockett returns with The Calamity Club – a triumphant, big-hearted novel following three women in Depression-era Mississippi. Bold, heartwarming, and riotously funny, The Calamity Club is an unforgettable story of resilience and friendship, and a sisterhood of underestimated women who risk everything to take back control of their fates. We are thrilled to welcome Kathryn to Bath for this highly anticipated new novel, and we hope you’ll join us for what is sure to be a very special event.
Kathryn will be in conversation with Harriet Evans, author of thirteen bestselling novels, including The Beloved Girls, The Garden of Lost and Found, and most recently The Treasures.
Can’t make it to the event? Order a signed and dedicated copy here.
About the book:
“You give a girl a taste of fresh air and then you take it away―she’ll grow fierce and wild to get it back.”
Oxford, Mississippi, 1933.
Eleven-year-old Meg Lefleur has learned the hard way to rely on no one.
Ever since her beloved mother failed to come home last Christmas Eve, she’s been one of the ‘unadoptable’ girls at the town’s orphanage, where she fights each day to keep her wits sharp and her spirit unbowed.
When she meets Birdie, a young woman who has come to Oxford determined to remind her socialite sister of the impoverished family she left behind, for the first time in a long while it seems someone else might care about Meg’s future.
But as the Depression tightens its grip, Birdie begins to suspect her sister’s charmed life may be founded on a tapestry of lies. Then, Birdie encounters Charlie, a woman haunted by loss who has been pushed to the brink with nothing left to lose.
Drawn together by circumstance, they find unexpected kinship among a disreputable, determined band of women. But in a town steeped in hypocrisy, even the smallest act of defiance can have dangerous consequences…
“Smart, funny, and driven by unforgettable characters … a must-read“ – Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry
“With exquisite storytelling and unforgettable characters, The Calamity Club is a joyful, heartbreaking, heartwarming read. I loved it so much“ – Jennie Godfrey, author of The List of Suspicious Things
“As witty, bold, and transportive as it is heartbreaking and compassionate, The Calamity Club is storytelling at its finest. Stockett’s masterfully drawn characters are simply unforgettable” – Shelley Read, author of the international bestseller Go as a River