Noort, Saskia: The Dinner Club

Bitter Lemon Press © 2006, 253 pages

After Karen moved into the village from Amsterdam with her husband, Michel, and their two daughters, it took her a while to make friends. But finally she found Hanneke, and through her three other woman, and the five of them became fast friends. They dubbed themselves "The Dinner Club" and became a mutual support group--they drank and ate and vacationed together, watched one another's kids. Their husbands did business together. But when the book opens one of their houses is on fire. Someone dies. And the tragedy, together with another which follows shortly afterward, lays bare various truths, among them that the relationships among the members of the Club are more superficial than Karen had supposed. Nor were the members' five marriages as happy as she had supposed.

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Comments

[Audrey]

1.

Hi, Debra:
Thanks for visiting! I graduated in 1983...in addition to Linonia and Brothers (which I hope is still there) Sterling still had wooden card catalogs. It's still my dream library! It's raining here too...a good day for a book. I enjoyed my first week on Sunday Salon - see you Sunday!

[Debra Hamel]

2.

It should still be there! I haven't been down to the library in quite a while, though. You're a little before my time: I was there for graduate school from 1989-1996. I grew up here, though, so I was around in 1983 but not at Yale.

I'm glad you enjoyed the Salon!