And ladies of the club - Helen Hooven Santmyer

'Mesmerising ... an absolutely stunning story

DAILY MAIL

From the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War to the social turmoil of the 1930s. . . a warm, intimate yet epic tale of two remarkable women in a small Ohio town; of their fellow members in the Waynesboro ladies literary society, and of their men, their children and their grandchildren.

Anne Gordon - the gentle doctor's daughter with the strength and courage to forgive the sins of those she loves.

Sally Rausch - exuberant, wilful and ambitious, she transforms an unfashionable marriage into a bastion of social power ...

From girlhood to matriarchy, through wrenching battles for suffrage and prohibition to images of distant battlefields and loved ones lost forever,

" .. And Ladies

of the Club" brilliantly interweaves a century of American history with the individual joys, crises and tragedies of the town and its people. The result is a superb, glittering achievement - a great, rich, satisfying read, already acclaimed as a classic of its kind

Cover illustration by Stuart Bodek