The Book Group Season 1

April. 12,2002      TV-14
Rating:
7.6
Trailer Synopsis

First series of the dark comedy about a dysfunctional book group in Glasgow. A lonely Clare has just moved to Scotland and is extremely keen to meet some new, interesting people. Naturally, she decides to start a book group...

Episode 6 : A Little More Living
May. 17,2002
Barney has died of an overdose. His brother Lachlan arrives to tell Clare - and there is an instant spark between them. Meanwhile, Kenny's literary fantasies intrigue Fist and Dirka - but can he deliver in the flesh?
Episode 5 : Dark Alley
May. 10,2002
Janice hosts the book group as they discuss the book written by the author she is having an affair with. But the group can't seem to focus on their subject.
Episode 4 : Bedtime Stories
May. 03,2002
Clare discovers Barney's on drugs, and decides it's her mission in life to save him. Meanwhile, Janice sleeps with the famous thriller writer, Martin Logan, and can't wait to go to confession to tell her priest, a big fan of the author.
Episode 3 : Magical Realism
April. 26,2002
Kenny is writing a book in which a beautiful woman who looks a lot like Fist shares a cabin in the hills with him. Clare is also writing a book, in which a handsome professor who looks a lot like Barney falls in love with his student, a lovely American woman not unlike Clare.
Episode 2 : The Alchemist
April. 19,2002
Kenny has an admirer at the leisure centre where he works, but does she know he's in a wheelchair? Meanwhile, Fist decides to follow some advice from this week's book - and leave her husband...
Episode 1 : On the Road
April. 12,2002
Clare's book group starts to assemble. She meets Kenny, a handsome guy in a wheelchair who wants to be a writer; Janice, the frustrated wife of a Scottish footballer; and eccentric student Barney, to whom Clare is strangely attracted...

Seasons

Season 2
The Glasgow book group is back. As the group struggle to get through Don Quixote, Clare is facing a formidable windmill of her own in the guise of older sister, Jean, who wants to move to Glasgow from Cincinnati.
Season 2 2003
Season 1
First series of the dark comedy about a dysfunctional book group in Glasgow. A lonely Clare has just moved to Scotland and is extremely keen to meet some new, interesting people. Naturally, she decides to start a book group...
Season 1 2002

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