Silversurfers Book Club Summer 2022
Welcome to the Silversurfers Book Club!
Each season we share a selection of popular book titles and new releases which you may like to read as part of our Silversurfers Book Club.
How and when you read is up to you; you can choose to read them on a tablet or an actual paperback, and you can read them in your own time.
When you’ve finished reading, join us in the comments section below this post and write a review of the book and share your feedback with others who have read along too.
To get you started, below are some suggested titles to kick off the new Summer 2022 Silversurfers Book Club Season… Simply select the title you would like to read, and if you would like to buy it or download it for your Kindle or other tablets, there is a link next to the book title, which will direct you to Amazon, making it simple for you to buy.
Alternatively, you may wish to buy the book elsewhere, or borrow it from your local library.
SIMPLY CLICK ON THE IMAGE OF THE BOOK YOU FANCY AND YOU WILL BE DIRECTED TO THE BOOK ON AMAZON … most titles are around £6 to purchase and less on a Kindle!
If you have previously read another book and would like to recommend it as a future read for the Silversurfers book club, feel free to leave the title and author in the comments section, with a brief synopsis, and your review.
The Paper Palace – Miranda Cowley Heller
Book Synopsis
If you loved Where the Crawdads Sing then this is the book for you! Longlisted for The Women’s Prize for 2022, Miranda Cowley Heller’s, The Paper Palace is a deeply emotional love story that will have you gripped to the very last page.
It’s a beautiful summer morning in Cape Cod and Elle Bishop is waking up in the knowledge that she crept outside of her family cabin with her childhood sweetheart Jonas to have sex, while their spouses were happily chatting away inside. Elle has been in love with Jonas since they were kids and has often wondered what things would have been like if a tragic event hadn’t changed the course of their lives.
So begins a journey through Elle’s life and all of the events that have led to this life-changing moment and the ultimate decision she must make.
My Fourth Time, We Drowned by Sally Hayden
Profoundly shocking, urgent and essential, Hayden’s riveting volume about the twenty-first-century migrant crisis places testimony from a wide range of refugees front and centre, revealing an appalling level of abuse, corruption and cruelty – all tacitly sanctioned by European policy.
Book Synopsis
The Western world has turned its back on refugees, fuelling one of the most devastating human rights disasters in history.
In August 2018, Sally Hayden received a Facebook message. ‘Hi sister Sally, we need your help,’ it read. ‘We are under bad condition in Libya prison. If you have time, I will tell you all the story.’ More messages followed from more refugees. They told stories of enslavement and trafficking, torture and murder, tuberculosis and sexual abuse. And they revealed something else: that they were all incarcerated as a direct result of European policy.
From there began a staggering investigation into the migrant crisis across North Africa. This book follows the shocking experiences of refugees seeking sanctuary, but it also surveys the bigger picture: the negligence of NGOs and corruption within the United Nations. The economics of the twenty-first-century slave trade and the EU’s bankrolling of Libyan militias. The trials of people smugglers, the frustrations of aid workers, the loopholes refugees seek out and the role of social media in crowdfunding ransoms. Who was accountable for the abuse? Where were the people finding solutions? Why wasn’t it being widely reported?
At its heart, this is a book about people who have made unimaginable choices, risking everything to survive in a system that wants them to be silent and disappear.
The Good Servant – Fern Britton
Book Synopsis
The story of Marion Crawford, governess to the Queen – an ordinary woman living in an extraordinary time.
1932. Dunfermline, Scotland:
Marion Crawford, a bright, ambitious young teacher, is ready to make her mark on the world. Until a twist of fate changes the course of her life forever…
1936. Windsor Castle:
At first this ordinary woman is in a new world, working as the governess to two young princesses, in a household she calls home but where everyone is at a distance. As the course of history changes, she finds herself companion to the future Queen, and indispensable to the Crown. And slowly their needs become her needs. Their lives become hers.
It’s then she meets George, and falls in love for the first time. Now Marion faces an impossible choice: her sense of duty or the love of her life.
Out of her Depth – Lizzy Barber
Book Synopsis
Rachel is feeling a little unsatisfied with her life in London and applies for a summer job in Tuscany. When she finds out she has got the job she can’t believe her luck.
The summer job is set in the beautiful Tuscan Hills at the beautiful Villa Medici. She is quickly introduced to a group of glamorous teenagers, used to a privileged life full of lavish parties, beautiful people, and flowing champagne. She quickly gets swept away, especially when her new co-worker Diana promises to set her up with the gorgeous and sultry Sebastian.
As the nights turn into heady sun-soaked days, she gets caught up in the backstabbing and bed-hopping and quickly feels ‘out of her depth’. Then, someone goes too far, something tragic happens and nothing will be the same again!
A totally addictive summer read, perfect for lazy days on the beach!
Tell Me Your Lies – Kate Ruby
Book Synopsis
Lily and Nick Appleby have the perfect family – at least on the outside. Lily will do anything to protect the people she loves and even more her perfect reputation! She has made some ruthless choices to keep their family secrets hidden and doesn’t intend to stop now.
Then one night her party animal and out-of-control daughter Rachel ends up in A&E after a drink and drug binge the control she has had for all these years is beginning to slip. Like lightening, Lily seeks help for Rachel and hires a therapist called Amber who begins to make great progress with Rachel. Things take an unexpected turn, however, when Rachel begins to turn against her parents and Lily begins to grow suspicious. Is Amber simply trying to help heal Rachel or does she have a more sinister agenda?
The one thing that is for sure Rachel is being deceived. Never knowing who to believe, her search for the truth will unearth her family’s flaws and turn their picture-perfect world upside down!
Not a Happy Family – Shari Lapena
Book Synopsis
Fred and Sheila Merton a wealthy couple who live in the quiet, wealthy enclave of Brecken Hill are brutally murdered mere hours after an Easter family dinner with their three adult children. They, as you would expect, are all devastated – or are they?
It’s no secret that their children hate the guts of them, each for their own reasons. Their father is vindictive and takes pleasure in tormenting them and their mother is neglectful and looks the other way while they are browbeaten.
On the evening of the family dinner their father declares he has an announcement to make, one that makes all of them leave in disgust – including the part-time housekeeper and former nanny Irena, who sticks up for them. Could one of them be the culprit? Or are there other powers at play?
Shari will keep you guessing in this dark, tense, and satisfying murder mystery. A must-read for fans of epic modern crime.
The Beloved Girls
Book Synopsis
Catherine Lestrange a successful barrister has just finished a case and is waiting at the train to celebrate her anniversary with her husband when she goes missing without a trace. Usually calm and collected Catherine has been unusually spooked of late, after being visited by a mysterious woman at her office.
Her sudden disappearance is a complete mystery to her husband who also knows little about her past but little does her know that the secrets that she has hidden there are also the key to what has happened to her.
Somerset, 1989. Janey Lestrange arrives to stay for the summer at the grand old house of the Hunter family. But something is wrong behind the beautiful facades of Vanes. Janey’s childhood friend, Kitty Hunter, her brother, and their eccentric parents – once so welcoming – do not seem to want her there. It is only as the night of an ancient and mysterious family ritual looms closer that Janey comes to realise they need her there. Decades later, the tragic events of that unforgettable summer still cast the darkest shadow. Can the truth about what happened that night ever be brought into the light?
ENJOY YOUR READING AND DON’T FORGET WE’D LOVE TO READ YOUR VIEWS BELOW … HAPPY READING!
