The Book Club: Flesh by David Szalay

This month on The Women’s Podcast Book Club, Bernice Harrison, Niamh Towey, Róisín Ingle, and Ann Ingle are discussing Flesh by David Szalay. The book follows the life of István - an emotionally detached Hungarian man - as he moves from adolescence into adulthood. As the years pass, István moves from the army to the circles of London’s elite. His competing impulses for love, intimacy, status and wealth win him unimaginable riches, until they threaten to undo him completely. The next book club pick is Heart the Lover by American author Lily King. The group will be discussing it in March. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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This episode is 39:47 long.

This episode was published on Jan 25, 2026.

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