December’s Book – Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

Sinéad has picked December’s book. It will be Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter.

November’s Book Wool by Hugh Howey

Merle has chosen November’s book Wool by Hugh Howey.

 

October’s Book Dear Ross by Evelyn O’Rourke

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sarah chose October’s Book Dear Ross by Evelyn O’Rourke. 

August’s Book: Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen

July’s Book: Can Anybody Help Me? By Sinead Crowley

May’s Book

Kim has chosen May’s Book it is The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty.

 

“Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret—something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others as well. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive. . . .
Cecilia Fitzpatrick has achieved it all—she’s an incredibly successful businesswoman, a pillar of her small community, and a devoted wife and mother. Her life is as orderly and spotless as her home. But that letter is about to change everything, and not just for her: Rachel and Tess barely know Cecilia—or each other—but they too are about to feel the earth-shattering repercussions of her husband’s secret.”

April’s Book

We’ve had a change to April’s book as we are going to have a special guest join us for our April meeting. Carmel Harrington, author of Beyond Grace’s Rainbow has offered to visit our book club.

We will read Beyond Grace’s Rainbow and discuss it on the night.

We are really looking forward to welcoming Carmel. The meeting date is to be confirmed.

March’s Book

We kept Kate Morton’s rather wonderful ‘The Secret Keeper’ for a second month so postponed ‘Crow Lake’ to March.

Crow Lake

February’s Book – Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

Aine has chosen February’s book. It will be Crow Lake by Mary Lawson.

Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so emotionally pitch perfect, you know from the opening page that this is the real thing-a literary experience in which to lose yourself, by an author of immense talent.

Here is a gorgeous, slow-burning story set in the rural “badlands” of northern Ontario, where heartbreak and hardship are mirrored in the landscape. For the farming Pye family, life is a Greek tragedy where the sins of the fathers are visited on the sons, and terrible events occur-offstage.

Centerstage are the Morrisons, whose tragedy looks more immediate if less brutal, but is, in reality, insidious and divisive. Orphaned young, Kate Morrison was her older brother Matt’s protegee, her fascination for pond life fed by his passionate interest in the natural world. Now a zoologist, she can identify organisms under a microscope but seems blind to the state of her own emotional life. And she thinks she’s outgrown her siblings-Luke, Matt, and Bo-who were once her entire world.

In this universal drama of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harbored and driven underground, Lawson ratchets up the tension with heartbreaking humor and consummate control, continually overturning one’s expectations right to the very end. Tragic, funny, unforgettable, Crow Lake is a quiet tour de force that will catapult Mary Lawson to the forefront of fiction writers today

We will discuss it on Tuesday February 25th.

January’s Book: The Secret Keeper

Elaine has chosen January’s book The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton.

 

From www.katemorton.com:

1961: On a sweltering summer’s day, while her family picnics by the stream on their Suffolk farm, sixteen-year-old Laurel hides out in her childhood tree house dreaming of a boy called Billy, a move to London, and the bright future she can’t wait to seize. But before the idyllic afternoon is over, Laurel will have witnessed a shocking crime that changes everything.

 

2011: Now a much-loved actress, Laurel finds herself overwhelmed by shades of the past. Haunted by memories, and the mystery of what she saw that day, she returns to her family home and begins to piece together a secret history. A tale of three strangers from vastly different worlds–Dorothy, Vivien and Jimmy–who are brought together by chance in wartime London and whose lives become fiercely and fatally entwined…