The best life book club

After dumping her cheating husband, Karissa Newcomb is ready for a fresh start, and that includes a new home in Gig Harbor with her young daughter, Macy, and a new job with Heron Publishing. Divorced and out of work, Margot Burns is doing her best to land another job, but what she is really passionate about is developing an idea for an app that could put her back on solid financial footing. Widowed Alice Strong believes she is doing fine. Alice's sister, Josie, would beg to differ since she believes Alice's world is getting smaller by the day. When the four women form a neighborhood book club, they not only find themselves bonding over books, they also discover a brighter future for themselves. With a dash of humor and a charmingly relatable cast of characters, Roberts (The Twelve Months of Christmas, 2023) smartly leans into her storytelling strengths with another heart-warming and hopeful tale that celebrates family, friendship, food, and love as well as the power of books to bring us together.