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The Confession Club
by Elizabeth Berg
I received this title as an ARC from Netgalley for an unbiased review.
The Confession Club is my other favorite for this Buzz.
It all started as a Supper Club that met once a month in a rotation of houses. After evolving into Confession Club, the group starts weekly meetings – still with supper, of course. Confession Club features a host of characters, the youngest of whom is 58, and all of them read and feel like people I know in my own life.
I feel like I cannot underline that point enough: Berg writes these characters with such depth and care that I can easily see my group of gal pals reflected in the Confession Club and I love the entire journey.
This book is not a high-stakes drama and is all the better for it. That is not to say it is without plot: Eventually, there are newcomers to Club and someone, of course, confesses to something that takes advice and support from the whole group to resolve. But it is a richly textured story in its telling, both comforting and smart.
Read-alikes include Berg’s first work in what is technically her Mason Series, The Story of Arthur Truluv, as well as Emma Hooper’s Etta & Otto & Russell & James, and Biloxi by Mary Miller.
The Confession Club is my other favorite for this Buzz.
It all started as a Supper Club that met once a month in a rotation of houses. After evolving into Confession Club, the group starts weekly meetings – still with supper, of course. Confession Club features a host of characters, the youngest of whom is 58, and all of them read and feel like people I know in my own life.
I feel like I cannot underline that point enough: Berg writes these characters with such depth and care that I can easily see my group of gal pals reflected in the Confession Club and I love the entire journey.
This book is not a high-stakes drama and is all the better for it. That is not to say it is without plot: Eventually, there are newcomers to Club and someone, of course, confesses to something that takes advice and support from the whole group to resolve. But it is a richly textured story in its telling, both comforting and smart.
Read-alikes include Berg’s first work in what is technically her Mason Series, The Story of Arthur Truluv, as well as Emma Hooper’s Etta & Otto & Russell & James, and Biloxi by Mary Miller.