The Book Club
A Women's Fiction Novel About the Power of Friendship
MIRA Books · Print & ebook · August 14, 2017
Discover this moving story of five remarkable friends as Mary Alice Monroe, the New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House explores the power of friendship with tenderness and honesty.
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- Who it’s for
- A gentle, social read built around friendship, conversation, and familiar emotional stakes.
- Genres
- Friendship, Women's Fiction, Marriage & Divorce
- Published
- MIRA Books, August 14, 2017
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Discover this moving story of five remarkable friends as Mary Alice Monroe, the New York Times bestselling author of The Beach House explores the power of friendship with tenderness and honesty. On the surface, it is a monthly book club. But for five women, it is so much more. For Eve Porter, whose husband’s sudden death cheats her of every security she had planned on, the club is a place of sanctuary.
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For Annie Blake, a brilliant attorney intent on starting a family late in life, it is the chance to finally let down her guard and dream of other possibilities. For Doris Bridges, it is her support group as she acknowledges her dying marriage and finds the ultimate freedom in her husband’s betrayal. For Gabriella Rivera, the "perfect" wife, mother and friend who offers support to everyone but is afraid to ask for it herself, it is a sense of community. And for Midge Kirsch, an artist who has always lived her life against the grain, it is a haven of acceptance. They are five women from different walks of life, embracing the challenge of change. And as they share their hopes and fears and triumphs, they will hold fast to the true magic of the book club—friendship. Originally published in 1999
Friendly Ground
A gentle, social read built around friendship, conversation, and familiar emotional stakes.
Come here for
- book-club conversation
- warm friendship-forward reading
Expect
- women’s fiction cadence
- conversation-friendly and easy to stay with
Where it sits
| Marriage & Divorce | 71% |
|---|---|
| Women's Fiction | 68% |
| Friendship | 65% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Short Story Anthologies
- Literary Fiction
- Coming-of-Age
- Women's Fiction
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- Marriage & Divorce
- Small-Town Fiction
- Friendship
- Grief & Loss
- Authors
- Mary Alice Monroe
- Publisher
- MIRA Books
- Published
- August 14, 2017
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Short Story Anthologies