There is fourteen-year-old Jael, who nurses a crush on the preacher's wife; the mother who bakes a sublime peach cobbler every Monday for her date with the married Pastor; and Eula and Caroletta, single childhood friends who seek solace in each other's arms every New Year's Eve.
With their secret longings, new love, and forbidden affairs, these church ladies are as seductive as they want to be, as vulnerable as they need to be, as unfaithful and unrepentant as they care to be - and as free as they deserve to be.
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EULA BOOKS the suite in Clarksville, two towns over.- EULA
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(Pushkin Press, 5 May 2022, e-book, 224 pages, borrowed from Glasgow Libraries via BorrowBox)
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I had a lot of fun reading The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. I didn't realise it was a collection of short stories when I borrowed it as I didn't even read the blurb. All of the stories are delightful, focusing on women, identity, personality, and sexuality. Some of them are quite dark at times but all are a joy to read. Highly recommended.
