chick lit

The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble | Goodreads

The Reading Group follows the trials and tribulations of a group of women who meet regularly to read and discuss books. Over the course of a year, each of these women’s lives becomes intertwined, both through the books they read and the real-life stories they tell.

Inspired by a shared desire for conversation, a good book and a glass of wine, Clare, Harriet, Nicole, Polly and Susan undergo startling revelations and transformations despite their difference in background, age and respective dilemmas.

In The Reading Group, Noble reveals the many complicated paths in life we all face as well as the power and importance of friendship.

At first I was very confused with the twelve characters dropped onto the reader in the prologue, but I kept on reading and I am glad I did. A kind of a family tree at the beginning would be very helpful.

It is the usual kind of crises every woman can face: a childless marriage, an unfaithful husband, a pregnant teenager, an elderly mum who had several strokes and an old family feud. But the characters’ evolution is mirrored in the “book of the month” which the reading group reads.

I did not read any of their books but did not need to in order to understand this story.

A good read. Even through the 547 pages.