It’s a pleasure today to be joining the blog tour for The Widows’ Wine Club by Julia Jarman: published by Boldwood Books on 7th August, it’s now available as an e-book (free via Kindle Unlimited), in paperback, and as an audiobook. As ever, my thanks to Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources for the invitation and support.
There was a time when it was quite difficult to find authors who wrote realistically about people of my generation – that’s no longer the case, thank goodness, and my reading landscape has greatly improved thanks to enlightened publishers like Boldwood. With thanks to them, I did have an advance reading e-copy of this one (provided via netgalley) but I’m so sorry but I just wasn’t able to provide a review this time round. But, as I was, you might well be drawn in by the intriguing synopsis – apologies again for the absence of a review, but let’s take a closer look…
The beginning of Janet, Viv and Zelda’s friendship could not have been less promising…
Navigating their new lives as widows, the three women venture to the same dreary bereavement group in a chilly church hall. But what bonds them is not their shared predicament, but instead how quickly they all decide to flee the depressing gathering, choosing instead to share a bottle of wine. The Three Muscat-eers is born.
The women may be down but they’re not out; in their sixties but certainly not past it. They agree a mission: to find fulfilment as single women and recover their joie de vivre. And as they start to feel ready to face the world again, the friends support each other to dive headlong into new hobbies, new adventures, and even to dip their toes into the wonderful world of dating again.
When one of the ladies gets life-changing news, there’s only one thing for it. The Widows’ Wine Club closes rank, and it’s ‘one for all and all for one’. Because when they stick together, there’s nothing the friends can’t achieve.
You can see why that appealed to me, can’t you?! And you might like to take a look at some of the other reviews from blogging friends who are also part of the tour…
About the author
Julia Jarman has written over a hundred books for children, and is now turning her hand to uplifting, golden years women’s fiction. She is now drawing on her own experience of bereavement, female friendship and late-life dating.
