Book Club Meets: Holiday romance and friendship in your 40s, with Chloe Ashby

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For 20 years Maggie and Will have spent idyllic summers in the south of France with their friends Lydia and Roland. This year though, tension is brewing and loyalties are being tested. Their young kids are all there too, and they might end up stumbling upon secrets that were being kept from them...

August’s Happy Place Book Club read is Family Friends. In this chat with Fearne, author Chloe Ashby explains why she wanted to explore relationship dynamics around the age of 40. Each character has brought a bit of extra baggage to this year’s holiday, so through them Chloe wonders at what point doing one bad thing makes you a bad person.

Plus, why was it controversial to include a teenage holiday romance?

Thank you to Penguin for the use of the Family Friends audiobook, narrated by Sally Scott.

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