cURRENT BOOK

APHRODITE’S BREATH

Author: SUSAN JOHNSON

What happens when you take your 85-year-old mother to live with you on a Greek island? A strikingly original, funny, and forensic examination of love and finding home from the author of From Where I Fell .

In life, as in myth, women are the ones who are supposed to stay home like Penelope, weaving at their looms, rather than leaving home like Odysseus. Meet eighty-five-year-old Barbara and her sixty-two-year-old writer-daughter Susan, who asked her mother-on a whim-if she wanted to accompany her to live on the Greek island of Kythera. What follows is a moving unravelling of the mother-daughter relationship told in irresistible prose.

Aphrodite’s Breath is a strikingly original, funny and forensic examination of love and finding home, amid the stories of the people, olives and wonders of the birthplace of Aphrodite.

Past books read by our Book Club…

• The Bookbinder of Jericho, Pip Williams
• The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
• The Good Wife of Bath, Karen Brooks
• Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus
• Shrines of Gaiety, Kate Atkinson
• The Cuckoo’s Calling, Robert Galbraith
• Between Before & After, Edita Mujkic
• The Marriage Portrait, Maggie O’Farrell
• Death on the Ferry Hygeia, Will Spokes
• Denizen, James McKenzie Watson
• Horse, Geraldine Brooks
• The Lincoln Highway, Amor Towles
• The Jane Austen Remedy, Ruth Wilson
• Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity & Love, Dani Shapiro
• The Last Beekeeper, Siya Turabi
• Miss Benton’s Beetle, Rachel Joyce
• The White Girl, Tony Birch
• The Girl with the Louding Voice, Abi Dare
• The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett
• Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver

• Still Life, Sarah Winman
• Amnesty, Aravind Adiga
• A Million Things, Emily Spurr
• The Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman
• Hamnet, Maggie O’farrell
• Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty
• All the Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
• The Good People, Hannah Kent
• Working Class Boy, Jimmy Barnes
• A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
• The Restorer, Michael Sala
• The Hidden Hours, Sara Foster
• Black Rock White City, A S Patric
• The Dry, Jane Harper
• The Cows, Dawn O’Porter
• Celeste, Roland Perry
• The Secret She Keeps, Michael Robotham
• American Dirt, Jeanine Cummins
• On the Java Ridge, Jock Serong
• The Girl Before, J P Delaney
• Angels & Insects, A S Byatt
• Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng
• The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami