Lighter book club option

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crochetcrazy1978 · 11/01/2023 17:46

Hi it's my turn to suggest the books for book club soon. We have to choose 5 books and then at the meeting we all vote and the one with the most votes is what we read that month.

I've picked out 4, they all sound great and have good reviews but are all quite serious. I'd like to include a lighter option but am a bit stuck. I'm not a fan of the classic chick lit. Was thinking of something similar to Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine, the keeper of stories, the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Can anyone help me out with some suggestions. Thanks

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SedatePixie · 12/01/2023 10:18

How about a Mary Westmacott (a pen name of Agatha Christie) Absent in the Spring is short but with plenty to talk about in a Book Club setting.

The Mary Westmacott's are not murder mysteries and have been dubbed romance novels but they really aren't-they are mostly about the lives of women.

Absent in the Spring is told in the first person by a woman who is coming home from visiting her married daughter in Baghdad. Her train is delayed and there is little to do but think about her life.

That sounds dull but it really isn't. She is an unreliable narrator and, as she tells us about events and conversations in her life, we get a very different picture of her character to the one she is presenting.

Does she realise and, if she does, will she do anything about it?

So good.

JaninaDuszejko · 11/01/2023 18:53

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré

All are easy reads but have enough to talk about. Although for Crawdads that might just be a flight between the lovers and haters.

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