When eight-year-old Jacob arrives on his parents’ doorstep, still a child, more than 50 years after his tragic drowning, the Hargraves must decide if their son’s reappearance —and others like it happening all around the world— is a divine miracle, or an ominous sign of troubling times ahead.

Chatelaine Book Club review: The Returned by Jason Mott

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Before an official ordered them to house the murderer Agnes Magnúsdóttir in the days leading up to her execution, the Jónsson family lived quiet lives on their small Icelandic farm. 

Chatelaine Book Club review: Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

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Twin sisters Isolte and Viola were inseparable, growing up in a tiny Welsh village with their beloved hippie mother. Life was full of daydreaming and endless exploration — until an innocent mistake with irrevocable consequences sets the sisters on hugely divergent paths.

Chatelaine Book Club review: The Twins by Saskia Sarginson

As many fortysomething moms waiting for their children in the playground can attest, not much changes from girl to grown-up: There are the same social hierarchies, the same jealous insecurities and the same formidable cliques. 

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A son reappears 50 years after his tragic drowning

An emotional tale about the last person executed in Iceland

Watch the trailer for Elizabeth Gilbert's The Signature of All Things

The Twins by Saskia Sarginson

The Hive by Gill Hornby