The Dinner Club - Helen Aitchison
Helen Aitchison
- Pages · 398 pages
- Publication Date · 11/03/2022
- Genre · Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Five people. Five secrets. Each needing healing, support and acceptance.�Derek's life has changed suddenly. His wife of the past few decades has left him, unable to live with his secret anymore. Inspired by a TV show, he decides to start a dinner club to make new friends, the kind that might accept him if he can be brave enough to tell them the truth.�Eddie is grieving, a widower, struggling as a single parent. The void in his life slowly destroying him and his relationship with his young daughter.�Florence, supported by her carer Jessie, craves one more adventure to round off the last 80 odd years.�Violet needs a focus, a new identity, until she has the confidence to escape her grim reality with abusive husband, Ben.�Cara is lost, with nowhere to call home and no one to go home to, now she's aged out of the care system.�Will this mishmash group fill each other's souls as well as their plates?
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