This month we’re crafting mosaic's while we catch up over our August read "Strangers" by Belle Burden

💐BONUS ACTIVITY: we're getting crafty and making Mosaic's while we chat!🌷

IMPORTANT🥰: this is a very low pressure meet-up, no quizzes or stress if you haven't read the book - everyone is welcome!! 🤗

Welcome to Spill the Tea (Wine) Book Club! Join us on Thursday 3rd September at 6PM for a cosy evening of book discussions + wine & tea sipping 📚 🍵 🥂+ crafting!! 🎨

Grab yourself our August book, pour yourself a comforting cup of tea (or wine) and dive with us into this months choice "Strangers" by Belle Burden. Here is the jist✨ (it sounds WILD tbh!):

In March 2020, Belle Burden was safe and secure with her family at their house on Martha’s Vineyard, navigating the early days of the pandemic together—building fires in the late afternoons, drinking whisky sours, making roast chicken. Then, with no warning or explanation, her husband of twenty years announced that he was leaving her. Overnight, her caring, steady partner became a man she hardly recognized. He exited his life with her like an actor shrugging off a costume.

In Strangers, Burden revisits her marriage, searching for clues that her husband was not who she always thought he was. As she examines her relationship through a new lens, she reckons with her own family history and the lessons she intuited about how a woman is expected to behave in the face of betrayal. Through all of it, she is transformed. The discreet, compliant woman she once was—someone nicknamed “Belle the Good”—gives way to someone braver, someone determined to use her voice.

With unflinching honesty and profound grace, Burden charts a path through heartbreak to show the power of a woman who refuses to give up on love. Strangers is a stunning, deeply moving, compulsively readable memoir heralding the arrival of a thrilling new literary talent.

⭐ Whether you're a literature enthusiast or just looking for an excuse to join a relaxing and fun midweek evening, this club is for you! 📖✨

To give you an idea of what we typically read, since December 2024 we have picked and (mostly!) enjoyed:

the much hyped and anticipated Sally Rooney's "Intermezzo",

"Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" by Gabrielle Zevin

"Sorrow and Bliss" by Meg Mason

"Orbital" by Samantha Henvey

"The Rachel Incident" by Caroline O'Donoghue (this was brilliant!!)

"Evenings and Weekends" by Oisin McKenna

"Blue Sisters" by Coco Mellors

"Before the Coffee gets colds" by Toshikazu Kawaguchi.

"The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid.

"Sunburn" by Chloe Michelle Howarth

"Hello beautiful" by Ann Napolitano

"Everything I know about Love" by Dolly Alderton

"Wuthering Heights" by Charlotte Bronte

"Circle of Friends" by Maeve Binchy

"Cleopatra and Frankenstein" by Coco Mellors

"The Housemaid" by Freida McFadden

"Yesteryear" by Caro Claire Burke

"Slags" by Emma Jane Unsworth

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