Hello! I started a fun book club over on the Fable app, called The Debut Book Club, and I hope you’ll join me!
The club is exactly as its title suggests – reading debut adult fiction novels from a wide range of genres! I personally love debuts, and I love finding a new gem of an author and helping to support them in a new scary journey of being, well, a published author.
Fable is such a fun space to connect with fellow book lovers, and helps make your book club more personal. I like to describe it as a space that looks like Goodreads discussion threads, but like wayyyyy more accessible and prettier and insert all the positive adjectives!
The November choice is The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser, a contemporary romance debut and a book about books. An immediate win for me!
Come join me on the Fable app now!
Synopsis:
Thea Mottram is having a bad month. She’s been let go from her office job with no notice—and to make matters even worse, her husband of nearly twenty years has decided to leave her for one of her friends. Bewildered and completely lost, Thea doesn’t know what to do. But when she learns that a distant great uncle in Scotland has passed away, leaving her his home and a hefty antique book collection, she decides to leave Sussex for a few weeks. Escaping to a small coastal town where no one knows her seems to be exactly what she needs.
Almost instantly, Thea becomes enamored with the quaint cottage, comforted by its cozy rooms and lovely but neglected garden. The locals in nearby Baldochrie are just as warm, quirky, and inviting. The only person she can’t seem to win over is bookshop owner Edward Maltravers, to whom she hopes to sell her uncle’s book collection. His gruff attitude—fueled by an infamous, long-standing feud with his brother, a local lord—tests Thea’s patience. But bickering with Edward proves oddly refreshing and exciting, leading Thea to develop feelings she hasn’t experienced in a long time. As she follows a thrilling yet terrifying impulse to stay in Scotland indefinitely, Thea realizes that her new life may quickly become just as complicated as the one she was running from.
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