Emotional Book-Club Fiction

Rachel’s Garden, a novel about a woman who creates a symbolic garden for everyone she has loved, lost or wronged — and discovers that grief, guilt and revenge all have roots.

Distorted Days, a darkly comic and deeply human novel about betrayal, breakdown, loneliness and the fragile possibility of beginning again.

Rachel’s Garden

A darkly emotional book-club novel about a woman who creates a garden for everyone she has loved, lost or wronged — and discovers that grief, guilt and revenge all have roots.

At Maple Cottage, on the edge of Peckforton Woods, Rachel Jordan begins to build a garden of rooms: one for her dead mother, one for her lost father, one for the friend she...

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Distorted Days

A darkly comic literary novel about betrayal, miscarriage and the strange, unruly business of surviving yourself.

Doris is not the sort of woman who falls apart elegantly.

When she discovers her husband, John, in bed with Lisa — her closest friend — she is carrying a pregnancy she has not yet announced, a future she has barely dared to imagine,...

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