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The Confession Club by Elizabeth Berg
3.0

This is a story about a group of friends in a quiet town called Mason.

Years ago the women started a Book Club but organically it became The Confession Club.

The women meet, they share a meal, a dessert and a secret.

The secrets aren’t incredibly life changing and they aren’t always scandalous.
This book isn’t really about a big whopper of a secret.
It’s about the rare friendships where you’d actually tell anything and everything to another person. It’s not a simple thing. These women are neighbors, hypothetically one of them could turn on the others and spill everyone’s secrets. But they all know that won’t happen.
In fact, they also know that if any of them needs support they will all be there.

This is mostly Iris’ story.
A new man moves to town with secrets of his own.
He’s homeless, not a fact he keeps from Iris.
He’s majorly wounded by his past.
Neither him nor Iris expects to find each other.

I haven’t read anything by this author before but I imagine I’ll look for the previous books set in this town. Some of the characters from previous books are mentioned but I don’t feel like it was necessary to read the prior books first.

This book was sweet, fairly drama free and had nice characters.

I got to read an early copy from NetGalley. Thank you!