01/09/2026
Our book club pick this September is Strangers by Belle Burden.
“In March 2020, Belle Burden was safe and secure with her family at their house on Martha’s Vineyard, navigating the early days of the pandemic together—building fires in the late afternoons, drinking whisky sours, making roast chicken. Then, with no warning or explanation, her husband of twenty years announced that he was leaving her.
In Strangers, Burden revisits her marriage, searching for clues that her husband was not who she always thought he was. As she examines her relationship through a new lens, she reckons with her own family history and the lessons she intuited about how a woman is expected to behave in the face of betrayal.
With unflinching honesty and profound grace, Burden charts a path through heartbreak to show the power of a woman who refuses to give up on love.”
Strangers is available at both the Tocumwal and Cobram Library systems, on Spotify Premium, and is $25 at Kmart and Big W. I also have a copy if you’d like to borrow it ahead of time.
Our September meeting is Friday, September 18 at 6:30 PM at the Terminus Hotel in Tocumwal. Please let me know if you plan to attend so I can reserve our table