The Book Club

Behind the hedges of a small, wealthy village live powerful people whose decisions sometimes serve the world and sometimes spread death in faraway places. Teresa Pellikaan, the easygoing daughter of one of these notables, discovers how deeply her father was implicated in a scandal with cruel effects. The trigger is Ruth Ackermann, a girl Teresa went to school with, who has written a worldwide bestseller and is invited to speak at the village bookshop. Ruth's father, a friend of Teresa's father through their reading club, had been at the heart of the affair.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

253 pages in the original

Genres

Politics (assigned by AI)

First published

2007 by Prometheus

Author's age

44 when first published

ISBN

9789044608571 (original)

9781849161770 (Quercus, United Kingdom)

9780857381323 (Quercus, United Kingdom)