How is it already May?? I’m running a bit behind because I was sure April still had another week! Anyone else feel like this past month was over in the blink of an eye? I’ve been busy with my dad’s house (he passed away last December and my mom and I have been getting it ready to sell) so I’m late posting this month’s book selections. Let’s jump right in!
Just to refresh your memory, April’s books were In a New York Minute and The Night She Went Missing
You can check those out in this post.
This month we are reading:
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune (romance)
and
The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth (mystery/thriller)
You can order both of these books here.
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
**Sidenote: this one isn’t released until May 10, but you can preorder now. I read this one last week and absolutely LOVED this! You can find my post about it here. I honestly can’t imagine loving a book more.
Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right.
They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart.
Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without.
For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart.
When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past.
Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic look at love and the people and choices that mark us forever.
The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth
THE HUSBAND
A heart surgeon at the top of his field, Stephen Aston is getting married again. But first he must divorce his current wife, even though she can no longer speak for herself.
THE DAUGHTERS
Tully and Rachel Aston look upon their father’s fiancée, Heather, as nothing but an interloper. Heather is younger than both of them. Clearly, she’s after their father’s money.
THE FORMER WIFE
With their mother in a precarious position, Tully and Rachel are determined to get to the truth about their family’s secrets, the new wife closing in, and who their father really is.
THE YOUNGER WIFE
Heather has secrets of her own. Will getting to the truth unleash the most dangerous impulses in all of them?
Who’s excited about this month’s selections? I can’t wait to get started reading! If you want more info on how to join our online book club, check out this post. You can also join our Facebook group to chat about the books with others.
Check out our past monthly selections:
January 2022 LaLa Life Book Club Selection
February 2022 LaLa Life Book Club Selections
