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Do you enjoy savoring a cup of tea in the comfort of your own home, while discussing a good read? If you said YES to this question, then please join us for our virtual,

monthly Teatime Book Club via Zoom @ 1pm.

 

Next session: Nov. 20th @ 1pm

 

Location: Virtual via Zoom (invite link emailed to participants)

 

Fee: No fee to attend.

 

To Do: Sign up, start reading your book, and mark your calendar for our next virtual meeting!

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* Washburn Memorial Library

(Open Hours: 9:30am - 4:00pm, Tuesday – Friday).

 

To sign up for Teatime Book Club: Please contact Cara, Library Director. Call 455-4814 or email washburnmainelibrary@gmail.com

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November's Book: The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club

by Helen Simonson

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A timeless comedy of manners—refreshing as a summer breeze and bracing as the British seaside—about a generation of young women facing the seismic changes brought on by war and dreaming of the boundless possibilities of their future, from the bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

It is the summer of 1919 and Constance Haverhill is without prospects. Now that all the men have returned from the front, she has been asked to give up her cottage and her job at the estate she helped run during the war. While she looks for a position as a bookkeeper or—horror—a governess, she’s sent as a lady’s companion to an old family friend who is convalescing at a seaside hotel. Despite having only weeks to find a permanent home, Constance is swept up in the social whirl of Hazelbourne-on-Sea after she rescues the local baronet’s daughter, Poppy Wirrall, from a social faux pas.

Poppy wears trousers, operates a taxi and delivery service to employ local women, and runs a ladies’ motorcycle club (to which she plans to add flying lessons). She and her friends enthusiastically welcome Constance into their circle. And then there is Harris, Poppy’s recalcitrant but handsome brother—a fighter pilot recently wounded in battle—who warms in Constance’s presence. But things are more complicated than they seem in this sunny pocket of English high society. As the country prepares to celebrate its hard-won peace, Constance and the women of the club are forced to confront the fact that the freedoms they gained during the war are being revoked.

Whip-smart and utterly transportive, The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club is historical fiction of the highest order: an unforgettable coming-of-age story, a tender romance, and a portrait of a nation on the brink of change.

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(Summary credit: Amazon.com )

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