Chatelaine Book Club

We exist in an environment where everything we hear about sex — I’m thinking the general media, movies, books, newspapers, not to mention the tall tales of our friends — all concern epic, life-changing, multi-orgasmic lovemaking, where the woman is left weeping with fulfillment and the man lies exhausted like a spent panther. In short, perfect and rather thin, like the ideal of beauty we all know so well.

A dramatic story of a grandmother, mother and daughter – three generations of women struggling to keep their family together

This follow-up to Hilary Davidson's The Damage Done is set in Machu Picchu, Peru. A travel writer and photographer seek a break from their gloomy realities at home only to come across a chain of violent deaths

Our next official Chatelaine Book Club pick is the thought-provoking Mr g: A Novel About the Creation, by physicist Alan Lightman! To get you started, here's the review.

Blending young love, history and survivorship, Alcott takes us through a young seamstress' brush with death and the difficult decisions that follow