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ContemporaryRomance
by Kitty Arthur
Trudie works at a bookshop called The Nook and has kept her world small and safe since the loss that shrank it. Then handwritten letters from her aunt begin to arrive, one after another, each setting her a task: change the lives of five people inside a year. A warm small-town romance about being nudged back out into the world by someone who knew you well.
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ContemporaryLiterary
Virginia Evans
Sybil Van Antwerp, a retired lawyer in her seventies, has written letters all her life: to her brother, her friends, the authors she admires and the people who have wronged her. Told entirely through that correspondence, her story slowly reveals the grief she has never spoken of. A quiet, deeply moving novel about the written word and making peace late in life.
ContemporaryLiterary
Megha Majumdar
In a near-future Kolkata strained by climate crisis, a mother about to leave for America with her small daughter has the family's papers stolen, and the young man who took them has a hungry family of his own. Over one tense week, two households fight to protect their children. An Oprah's Book Club pick.
Contemporary
Simon Van Booy
After sixty years in Australia and the deaths of her husband and son, Helen Cartwright returns to the English village of her childhood wanting only to be left alone. Then a small mouse turns up in her kitchen, and her careful routine begins to change. A tender story about second chances arriving in the most unexpected way.
