Book Chat with Anna Katsavos: Broken Country (2025) by Clare Leslie Hall

Join fellow fiction enthusiasts to discuss critically acclaimed novels. This class focuses on Broken Country (2025) by Clare Leslie Hall.

A combination love story and thriller, this Reese's Book Club pick toggles between Beth’s past, in which Gabriel, her first love left her broken-hearted, and her contented present with her kind, loving husband Frank. The present timeline begins as Beth and Frank work together on the family farm, two years after the death of their nine year old son. When Gabriel returns to her village with his own son, Beth is pulled back into Gabriel’s life with devastating consequences. Emotional complexities of misplaced guilt, human fallibility, secrets, regrets, atonement, and forgiveness crescendo with plot twists that culminate in a murder trial.