At 74, former cane farmer Grace Maud is feeling her age, and her isolation, and thinks the best of life may be behind her.

Elsewhere in town, high school teacher Patricia has given up on her dreams of travel and adventure and has moved back home to look after her ageing parents, while cafe owner Dorothy is struggling to accept that she may never have the baby she and her husband so desperately want.

Each woman has an unspoken need: reconnection. And that's how they find themselves at Orange Blossom House, surrounded by perfumed rainforest, being encouraged by their yoga teacher, the lively Sandrine.

Together, they will find courage and strength - and discover that life has much more to offer than they ever expected.

Other Parents - Sarah Stovell - R330.00

In a small town like West Burntridge, it should be impossible to keep a secret. Rachel Saunders knows gossip is the price you pay for a rural lifestyle and outstanding schools.

The latest town scandal is her divorce and the fact that her new girlfriend has moved into the family home. Laura Spence lives in a poky bedsit on the wrong side of town.

She and her son Max don’t really belong, and his violent tantrums are threatening to expose the very thing she’s trying to hide.

When the local school introduces a new inclusive curriculum, Rachel and Laura find themselves on opposite sides of a fearsome debate. But the problem with having your nose in everyone else’s business is that you often miss what is happening in your own home.

12 Hours To Say I Love You - Olivia Poulet & Laurence Dobiesz - R355

Pippa Gallagher is rushed into hospital following a traffic accident. As Pippa lies unconscious, fragments of the past flash through her mind. The day she met Steve Gallagher, the man who would become the love of her life.

The heartbreak she felt tonight as she got into her car, her eyes blurry from tears. Meanwhile Steve sits at her bedside, his eyes fixed on her pale, still face. He has no idea where his wife was going when she crashed.

No clue as to why she became distracted behind the wheel. All he knows is that she is his world. And that he wasn't there when she needed him most. For the next twelve hours, Steve tells Pippa all the reasons he loves her.

But is it too late? Can Pippa find her way back to him?

The Locked Room - Elly Griffiths - R355

Ruth is in London clearing out her mother's belongings when she makes a surprising discovery, a photograph of her Norfolk cottage taken before Ruth lived there.

Her mother always hated the cottage, so why does she have a picture of the place? The only clue is written on the back of the photo, Dawn, 1963.

Ruth returns to Norfolk determined to solve the mystery, but then Covid rears its ugly head. Nelson, meanwhile, is investigating a series of deaths of women that may or may not be suicide.

When he links the deaths to an archaeological discovery, he breaks curfew to visit the cottage where he finds Ruth chatting to her neighbour whom he remembers as a carer who was once tried for murdering her employer. Only then her name wasn't Zoe. It was dawn.

Little Wing - Freya North - R290

1969. Florence Lawson, a 16-year-old schoolgirl who dreams of being an artist, finds herself pregnant and banished to one of the most remote parts of the UK.

1986. Dougie Munro, searching for adventure, leaves the Isle of Harris - the island of his birth - for art college and a career in London as a photographer.

2005. Nell Hartley, content with her life managing a care-in-the-community cafe in Colchester, discovers a shocking truth about her family.

Between the sprawl of London, suburban Essex, and the wild, unpredictable Outer Hebrides, three lives collide and interweave as questions are asked and secrets surface.

What happened to Florence? Why is Dougie now so reluctant to return home? How can Nell make peace with the lies she's been told?

In The Shadow Of The Mountain - Silvia Vasquez-Lavado - R355

Despite a high-flying career, Silvia Vasquez-Lavado knew she was hanging by a thread. Deep in the throes of alcoholism, and hiding her sexuality from her family, she was repressing the abuse she'd suffered as a child.

When her mother called her home to Peru, she knew something finally had to change. It did. Silvia began to climb.

Something about the sheer size of the mountains, the vast emptiness and the nearness of death -woke her up. And then, she took her biggest pain to the biggest mountain: Everest.

The 'Mother of the World' allows few to reach her summit, but Silvia didn't go alone. Trekking with her to Base Camp, were six troubled young women on an odyssey that helped each confront their personal trauma, and whose strength and community propelled Silvia forward.

 Which of these do you think your book club would enjoy?