Come and join us for February’s Skylarking Book Club, when we will be having ALL THE FEELZ as we discuss Meredith, Alone, by Claire Alexander. This is a charming, heartfelt novel that will entertain you and warm you up during those chilly February days.

Meredith has spent three years inside her house, and is trying to work out how to rejoin the world one step at a time. She has a full-time remote job and her rescue cat Fred. Her best friend Sadie visits with her two children. There's her online support group, her jigsaw puzzles and favorite recipes, her beloved Emily Dickinson poems. Also keeping her company are treacherous memories of an unstable childhood and a traumatic event that had sent her reeling.

But something's about to change. First, two new friends burst into her life. Then her long-estranged sister gets in touch. Suddenly her carefully curated home is no longer a space to hide. Whether Meredith likes it or not, the world is coming to her door...

In these post-pandemic times, this is the book we all need right now.

ADDED BONUS: THE AUTHOR, CLAIRE ALEXANDER, WILL BE JOINING US VIA ZOOM TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BOOK!

The discussion starts at 6:30 in the shop. Attendance is free - we just ask that you purchase your copy of the book from us.

Claire Alexander lives on the west coast of Scotland with her husband and children. She has written for The Washington Post, The Independent, The Huffington Post and Glamour. In 2019, one of her essays was published in the award-winning literary anthology We Got This: Solo Mom Stories of Grit, Heart, and Humor. When she’s not writing or parenting, she’s on her paddle board, thinking about her next book.