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Mrs. Bridge

Our book group choice for February 2024 is Mrs. Bridge by Evan S Connell. The book offers a poignant glimpse into the seemingly idyllic life of India Bridge, a wife and mother in 1930s Kansas City. Through 117 brief episodes, Connell paints a nuanced portrait of a woman grappling with societal shifts, personal doubts, and the quiet ache of unfulfilled

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LBG Announces Pantheon Class of 2023

London, UK (20 Dec 2023) — Charles Dickens features twice, joining six other authors in the The Loveliest Book Group Pantheon Class of 2023, announced today in London. British classics David Copperfield and A Christmas Carol join Great Expectations – inducted in the inaugural class earlier in the year – to lift Dickens’ to the most entries (3) in the London-based

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For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

Our book group choice for November 2023 is For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain, by Victoria MacKenzie. MacKenzie’s debut novel is a fictionalized account of the meeting between two extraordinary medieval women: Margery Kempe, a visionary mystic and pilgrim, and Julian of Norwich, an anchoress who lived in a tiny cell for over sixty years.

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Hotel du Lac

Our book group choice for June 2023 is Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner. Edith Hope is a romance novelist who has been banished from London in disgrace after her engagement is broken off. She arrives at the Hotel du Lac, a small hotel on the shores of Lake Geneva, in a state of bewilderment. She is determined to rebuild

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