A Whisper to a Scream (The Bibliophiles: Book One)
The Bibliophiles, no. 1
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3.7 • 3 Ratings
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Publisher Description
She could be your sister, best friend, wife, daughter, neighbor. An overwhelmed stay-at-home mom whose husband is too preoccupied with work to spend time with his family. A PR executive scared to death she waited too long to have the baby she has always wanted. When they meet through a Classics Book Club, each thinks the other one's life is so much better than her own. But, is the grass truly greener on the other side of the fence?
A vivid portrayal of contemporary marriage and its problems, "A Whisper to a Scream" speaks to a longing in all of us, a yearning that might start as a vague notion, but eventually grows into an unbearable, vociferous cry. This is the first installment of six novels exploring the lives of the Bibliophiles, a fictional suburban book club.
Customer Reviews
Karen Wojcik Berner offers warm stories with realistic characters.
I’ve read my share of books about the relationships between female characters and their ties with their families, their friends, their jobs, their aspirations, and their self-realization. However I found the women I met in Berner’s book club as more real, more like my own friends, because in “real life,” the endings aren’t always resolved the way we anticipate or hope for. Instead, we change or are changed, we resolve and adapt, we reset our goals, and happily or not, we move on. That’s the formula that makes Berner’s books a very fine and moving read.
Book one, A Whisper to a Scream, introduces us to Sarah and Annie who eventually meet in a book club in Naperville, Illinois.
Sarah is a married homemaker with children and her husband Tom spends too many long hours at work in the city. Sarah longs for fulfillment and adult contact and friendships beyond her beloved children and outside her suburban home.
Annie, on the other hand, has worked herself to an executive position in a public relations firm, but she aches to start a family with her husband John. Together they make every effort to conceive a child through modern medical advances, but the focus and effort bring stress and fear of failure to their marriage.
Edwina Hipplewhite’s Classics Book Club is where they meet. Their stories take off and friendships evolve as their lives unfold against the backdrop of the book club meetings and the literature they read and discuss.