The Confession Club

 

Shirley J.                            Adult Fiction                                Friends sharing their secrets over dinners

The Confession Club by Elizabeth Berg  320 pages    

What starts out as a group of local ladies in Macon, MO, getting together to swap recipes and enjoy pot lucks together, soon turns into secret swapping, they start confessing their sins and hopes and dreams, lusty desires, secret shames, regrets find out they aren't judged but commiserated with and helped by the advice and knowledge that gets shared along with the rest.  For some it is spurring them on to do things they want to but are afraid to, for others it is getting long held burdens off their consciences.  As the saying goes true friends are the ones that know everything about you and like you anyway.   This is a fun inclusive book that makes the reader feel like a part of the group even if you are only hearing others' stories, you feel a real kinship with these gals.   Come to find out this too is a part of a series about women in Mason, MO so I plan to read the other two books since I enjoyed this one so much.  I recommend this one to adults, I'm not sure young people would get as big a kick out of it as older ladies might.  There are so many things ladies of a certain age can relate to that the young are just far too young to worry about, yet, or appreciate in the same way an older gal will.