Our highly popular series of lunchtime lectures on great works of literature are brought to you by Dr Jane Mackay. A graduate of three universities, Jane’s obvious love for her subject, penetrating insight, wit, warmth and humanity continue to enthral.

" All happy families are alike. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way". Come and enjoy the story of the respectably married Anna and her scandalous affair with the dashing Count Vronsky. The self-destruction of Anna and the contrasting story of Levin, a Tolstoy self-portrait, provides one of the clasic tales of a Russia already disappearing when it was written in 1877.