NEW! Join us for the first meeting of the Spoiler Alert Book Club on Wednesday, October 6th 7:30-8:30 PM on Zoom!

Each year we will focus on reading books in a different genre. This year we will be reading Romance books! For our first meeting come prepared to discuss Evvie Drake Starts Over by Linda Holmes (2019, 304 pages).

A heartfelt debut about the unlikely relationship between a young woman who’s lost her husband and a major league pitcher who’s lost his game.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR

In a sleepy seaside town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth “Evvie” Drake rarely leaves her large, painfully empty house nearly a year after her husband’s death in a car crash. Everyone in town, even her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and Evvie doesn’t correct them.

Meanwhile, in New York City, Dean Tenney, former Major League pitcher and Andy’s childhood best friend, is wrestling with what miserable athletes living out their worst nightmares call the “yips”: he can’t throw straight anymore, and, even worse, he can’t figure out why. As the media storm heats up, an invitation from Andy to stay in Maine seems like the perfect chance to hit the reset button on Dean’s future.

When he moves into an apartment at the back of Evvie’s house, the two make a deal: Dean won’t ask about Evvie’s late husband, and Evvie won’t ask about Dean’s baseball career. Rules, though, have a funny way of being broken—and what starts as an unexpected friendship soon turns into something more. To move forward, Evvie and Dean will have to reckon with their pasts—the friendships they’ve damaged, the secrets they’ve kept—but in life, as in baseball, there’s always a chance—up until the last out.

Evvie Drake Starts Over is available in print, Large Print, and on Overdrive/Libby as an ebook and digital audiobook.

This book club will meet once every other month and all meetings will be held online on Zoom. For Adults only.

Do you have any ideas what the Spoiler Alert Book Club should read next? Come ready to discuss future book picks at the October meeting!

Questions? Email Sarah at sbreen@minlib.net or call 781-455-7559 ext. 502.