Over Forty Book Club

This is a story about Peter Duke who went on to be a famous actor.
This is a story about falling in love with Peter Duke who wasn't famous at all.
It's about falling so wildly in love with him – the way one will at twenty-four – that it felt like jumping off a roof at midnight.
There was no way to foresee the mess it would come to in the end.

It's spring and Lara's three grown daughters have returned to the family orchard. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the one story they've always longed to hear – of the film star with whom she shared a stage, and a romance, years before.

Tom Lake is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is falling apart.

****NEW WEEK FOR BOOK CLUB'S MONTHLY HAPPY HOUR****
2ND WEDNESDAY 2ND WEDNESDAY 2ND WEDNESDAY

BEGINNING JANUARY 10, 2024, BOOK CLUB HAPPY HOUR WILL BE THE 2ND WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH, SAME TIME, SAME PLACE.

Fadó Irish Pub at Easton...Home Of The Colossal Soft Pretzel!
2ND Wednesday Of Every Month, 4:30-7:00
(Parking in lot directly across the street next to Barnes and Noble.)
Put down the current book our group is reading and join your host Marcia Levy for Happy Hour at Fadó Irish Pub at Easton. Plan on laughing a lot and great conversation. Our Happy Hour is 4:30-7:00... but no worries if you can't be there at the start...just come join us whenever you arrive.
Ask for the Book Club Reserved Table.

TONIGHT'S FADO HAPPY HOUR: A BOOK CLUB FUTURE ROAD TRIP PLANNING MEETING.
OUR PROPOSED TRIP, OCTOBER 26-27, TO NASHVILLE FOR SOUTHERN FESTIVAL OF BOOKS MAY NOT WORK DUE TO HUGE HOTEL RATES THAT WEEKEND.
LET'S DISCUSS HOTEL RATES IN NASHVILLE, WHETHER WE WANT TO TRY AND MAKE IT WORK, OR LET'S COME UP WITH AN ALTERNATIVE WEEKEND DESTINATION.
COME WITH YOUR IDEAS!!!

In an enthralling new historical novel from national bestselling author Kate Quinn, two women—a female spy recruited to the real-life Alice Network in France during World War I and an unconventional American socialite searching for her cousin in 1947—are brought together in a mesmerizing story of courage and redemption.

1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant, unmarried, and on the verge of being thrown out of her very proper family. She's also nursing a desperate hope that her beloved cousin Rose, who disappeared in Nazi-occupied France during the war, might still be alive. So when Charlie's parents banish her to Europe to have her "little problem" taken care of, Charlie breaks free and heads to London, determined to find out what happened to the cousin she loves like a sister.

1948. A year into the Great War, Eve Gardiner burns to join the fight against the Germans and unexpectedly gets her chance when she's recruited to work as a spy. Sent into enemy-occupied France, she's trained by the mesmerizing Lili, code name Alice, the "queen of spies", who manages a vast network of secret agents right under the enemy's nose.

Thirty years later, haunted by the betrayal that ultimately tore apart the Alice Network, Eve spends her days drunk and secluded in her crumbling London house. Until a young American barges in uttering a name Eve hasn't heard in decades, and launches them both on a mission to find the truth...no matter where it leads.