USA TODAY BESTSELLER • An uplifting novel about friendship, surprising revelations, and a second chance at love, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Story of Arthur Truluv. When a group of friends in Mason, Missouri, decide to start a monthly supper club, they get more than they bargained for. The plan for congenial evenings—talking, laughing, and sharing recipes, homemade food, and wine—abruptly changes course one night when one of the women reveals something startlingly intimate. The supper club then becomes Confession Club, and the women gather weekly to share not only dinners but embarrassing misdeeds, deep insecurities, and long-held regrets.
They invite Iris Winters and Maddy Harris to join, and their timing couldn't be better. Iris is conflicted about her feelings for a charming but troubled man, and Maddy has come back home from New York to escape a problem too big to handle alone. The club offers exactly the kind of support they need to help them make some difficult decisions.
The Confession Club is charming, heartwarming, and inspiring. And as in the previous books that take place in Mason, readers will find friendship, community, and kindness on full display.
Praise for The Confession Club “[A] feel-good testament to taking risks, falling love, and reinvention . . . Berg effortlessly wraps her arms around this busy universe of quirky characters with heartbreaking secrets and unflagging faith. . . . Readers new to Berg’s Mason will be dazzled by this bright and fascinating story, and fans will be cheering for the next volume.”
—Publishers Weekly
On sale: August 4, 2020
Page count: 320 Pages
ISBN: 9781984855190
Elizabeth Berg is the author of many bestselling novels, including
The Story of Arthur Truluv,
Open House (an Oprah's Book Club selection),
Talk Before Sleep, and
The Year of Pleasures, as well as the short story collection
The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted.
Durable Goods and
Joy School were selected as ALA Best Books of the Year. She adapted
The Pull of the Moon into a play that enjoyed sold-out performances in Chicago and Indianapolis. Berg's work has been published in thirty countries, and three of her novels have been turned into television movies. She is the founder of Writing Matters, a quality reading series dedicated to serving author, audience, and community. She teaches one-day writing workshops and is a popular speaker at venues around the country. Some of her most popular Facebook postings have been collected in
Make Someone Happy and
Still Happy. She lives outside Chicago.
“A soothing slice of small-town life.”
—People “You needn’t have read the previous Mason installments to savor
The Confession Club. . . . [Elizabeth Berg’s] language is gentle, her stories complex: simple outside and rich inside, like a pound cake from Iris’s kitchen.”
—Minneapolis Star Tribune “
The Confession Club shows that family doesn’t have to be defined in the traditional sense, home isn’t always where we expect it to be, and the love of friends is all we really need.”
—Booklist “The literary equivalent of well-worn slippers, a glass of wine, and no wellness diets in sight.”
—Kirkus Reviews
