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Hello and happy November 1st! Today officially kicks off our inaugural session of the Fifteen Minute Book Club – a low-commitment book club for busy people. This month we’re reading Heart the Lover by Lily King. Grab a copy of the book from your local library, indie bookstore, or our storefront on Bookshop.org!
Summary
In the fall of her senior year of college, the narrator meets two star students from her 17th-Century Lit class: Sam and Yash. Best friends living off-campus in the elegant house of a professor on sabbatical, the boys invite her into their intoxicating world of academic fervor, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. They nickname her Jordan, and she quickly discovers the pleasures of friendship, love and her own intellectual ambition. Youthful passion is unpredictable though, and she soon finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. As graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives forever.
Decades later, Jordan is living the life she dreamed of, and the vulnerable days of her youth seem comfortably behind her. But when a surprise visit and unexpected news brings the past crashing into the present, Jordan returns to a world she left behind and is forced to confront the decisions and deceptions of her younger self.
I’ll be posting a rundown of my thoughts at the end of the month (maybe as a video and/or podcast?!?!), but in the meantime, let’s use this comment thread to discuss the book!
My tip (I just learned) is for those who read her previous book writers and lovers keep an eye out for the connection. 😉