Discussion Questions
We'll add publisher questions if and when they're available; in the meantime, use our LitLovers Questions to help start a discussion for LADY CLEMENTINE … then take off on your own:
1. How would you describe Clementine? Talk about her childhood, her social position as an outsider, and her maternal insecurities.
2. Explore the influence Clementine had on her husband Winston throughout their marriage, especially during the vital years leading up to and including the Second World War. To what extent do you think Winston's success, and the Allied's, is due to Clementine's wise and steady guidance? Can you point to specific incidents in the book that stood out most vividly to you?
3. What traits in, or specific actions of, Clementine do you find most admirable, considering, that is, that you find her admirable? Are there aspects of her personality which you find less to admire than others?
4. How does Winston Churchill come across in this fictional account? Where you surprised at his frequent outbursts at Clementine?
5. What other books have you read, or films have you viewed, about the famous Churchill couple? How does this fictional account compare? What insights have you gained about the two after reading Lady Clementine?
(Questions by LitLovers. Please feel free to use them, online and off, with attribution. Thanks.)
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