A bighearted contemporary romance about a book club's surprising matchmaking experiment,My Book Club Summeris a luminous testimony to the power of friendship and a nod to every woman who's ever wondered if Mr. Right is hiding in the pages of a novel—or waiting just beyond them.
One year after her divorce from a rising political star, art curator Katherine Ray is still reeling. She lost not only her dreams of a family but also her thriving gallery in Chicago. With no clear sense of what's next, Kat packs up and heads to Lido Isle in Newport Beach, the coastal enclave where she spent her childhood summers, to care for her ailing grandmother and begin figuring out her next act as a single woman. What she doesn't expect is that one visit to Grandma Betty's book club—the Lido Lit Ladies—will make her the center of their newest project: setting Kat up on blind dates with real-life versions of iconic fictional boyfriends.
Before long, Kat finds herself on a series of first dates orchestrated by her new book club friends. There's a charming cowboy. A charismatic bestselling author. A billionaire. An NFL star. A fantasy-hero lookalike. And finally, a firefighter who also happens to be a friend from long-ago summers. But what begins as a playful matchmaking experiment soon becomes something deeper. As Kat dares to open her heart again and uncovers an unexpected chapter in Grandma Betty's own story, she begins to face her past, rewrite her own narrative, and maybe, just maybe, believe in herself again.
At its heart, My Book Club Summer explores the messy, magical terrain of self-discovery, dating, second chances, and the stories we tell ourselves about life and love.
One year after her divorce from a rising political star, art curator Katherine Ray is still reeling. She lost not only her dreams of a family but also her thriving gallery in Chicago. With no clear sense of what's next, Kat packs up and heads to Lido Isle in Newport Beach, the coastal enclave where she spent her childhood summers, to care for her ailing grandmother and begin figuring out her next act as a single woman. What she doesn't expect is that one visit to Grandma Betty's book club—the Lido Lit Ladies—will make her the center of their newest project: setting Kat up on blind dates with real-life versions of iconic fictional boyfriends.
Before long, Kat finds herself on a series of first dates orchestrated by her new book club friends. There's a charming cowboy. A charismatic bestselling author. A billionaire. An NFL star. A fantasy-hero lookalike. And finally, a firefighter who also happens to be a friend from long-ago summers. But what begins as a playful matchmaking experiment soon becomes something deeper. As Kat dares to open her heart again and uncovers an unexpected chapter in Grandma Betty's own story, she begins to face her past, rewrite her own narrative, and maybe, just maybe, believe in herself again.
At its heart, My Book Club Summer explores the messy, magical terrain of self-discovery, dating, second chances, and the stories we tell ourselves about life and love.
- Poignant, contemporary women's fiction for fans of Courtney Walsh, Annabel Monaghan, Carley Fortune, Emily Giffin
Features a low-spice, friends-to-lovers romance for fans of bookish novels like Emily Henry's Book Lovers, Libby Page's This Book Made Me Think of You, and Denise Hunter's The Second Story Bookshop
A perfect beach read for book clubs that includes discussion questions
Genre: Romance