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Broken Country
A Literary Fiction Novel by Clare Leslie Hall
Subgenres:
- Mystery,
- Romantic Drama,
- Dual Timeline
This book is for you if you're into...
- Love triangles tangled with buried secrets and tragic pasts
- Rural village mysteries where every relationship hides something dangerous
- Stories toggling between past and present with high emotional stakes
From Little Stack
It’s not the main character, Beth, who returns home in this novel but her former love, Gabriel, who arrives back in their English village years after leaving her heartbroken. Now married to another man, Beth is destabilized from Gabriel’s return, especially since his son reminds her of the one she lost.
When Beth’s brother-in-law shoots Gabriel’s son’s dog after it harms their farm animals, their lives collide again, stirring up both forbidden passion and buried secrets. You’ll find this recent Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick nearly impossible to put down as it builds to a shocking conclusion.
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK | A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall is an unforgettable story of love, loss, and the choices that shape our lives…but it's also a masterfully crafted mystery that will keep you guessing until the very last page.
A love triangle unearths dangerous, deadly secrets from the past in this thrilling tale perfect for fans of The Paper Palace and Where the Crawdads Sing.
The farmer is dead. He is dead, and all anyone wants to know is who killed him.
Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth's brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn't realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager—the man who broke her heart years ago.
Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son, who died in a tragic accident. As Beth is pulled back into Gabriel's life, tensions around the village rise and dangerous secrets and jealousies from the past resurface, this time with deadly consequences.
Beth is forced to make a choice between the woman she once was, and the woman she has become. A sweeping love story with the pace and twists of a thriller, Broken Country is a novel of simmering passion, impossible choices, and explosive consequences that toggles between the past and present to explore the far-reaching legacy of first love.
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