Six more months of social distancing? Don’t worry we have the perfect distraction – a new book of the month for October! Introducing The Mothers by Brit Bennett.
She’s all that
The spotlight is well and truly on Brit Bennett at the moment. Her latest, The Vanishing Half, is proving she is all that (New York Times best seller, HBO series in the works) however it is The Mothers, Bennett’s debut, that we are focusing on this month. It’s a coming of age story that takes in suicide, abortion and religion in southern California (where Bennet is from). And just look at that gorgeous cover!
The Mothers – the blurb
All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we’d taken a moment to swish this one around our mouths, we might have noticed the sourness of an unripe secret, plucked too soon, stolen and passed around before its season.
It’s the last season of high school life for Nadia Turner, a rebellious, grief-stricken, seventeen-year-old beauty. Mourning her own mother’s recent suicide, she takes up with the local pastor’s son. Luke Sheppard is twenty-one, a former football star whose injury has reduced him to waiting tables at a diner. They are young; it’s not serious. But the pregnancy that results from this teen romance – and the subsequent cover-up – will have an impact that goes far beyond their youth. As Nadia hides her secret from everyone, including Aubrey, her God-fearing best friend, the years move quickly. Soon, Nadia, Luke and Aubrey are full-fledged adults and still living in debt to the choices they made that one seaside summer, caught in a love triangle they must carefully maneuver and dogged by the constant, nagging question: what if they had chosen differently?
Join Us…
We will be sharing our Big Review of The Mothers on 22nd October. A series of Book Club questions will also be around for you to answer on 23rd. Don’t wait until then though, we would love to know your marks out of ten as soon as you have read it. So grab your copy and read along with us.
