Houston Women's Book Club

Join us for the Houston Women’s Book Club!

Come and be a part of our lively and engaging book club exclusively for women led by local author Patricia Hunt Holmes. We gather to discuss captivating stories, explore different genres, and connect with fellow bookworms in the heart of Houston.

Event Details:

We will meet in the St. John the Divine Chapel Family Room at 2450 River Oaks Boulevard, 77019.

The first two books are listed below. We will decide as a group on subsequent books. Please reserve a free ticket for each meeting you plan to attend.

• Tuesday, September 19, 10 – 11 am: The Little French Bistro by Nina George
• Tuesday, October 17, 10 – 11 am: The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah
• Tuesday, November 14, 10 – 11 am
• Tuesday, January 16, 10 – 11 am
• Tuesday, February 20, 10 – 11 am
• Tuesday, March 19, 10 – 11 am
• Tuesday, April 16, 10 – 11 am

To find the Chapel Family Room, please park in the circle drive on River Oaks Boulevard, then enter through the double red doors, and proceed into the hallway on the right.

Don’t miss out on this enriching experience! Save the date, and join us at the Houston Women’s Book Club. We can’t wait to embark on this literary journey with you!

About our Second book:

France, 1939 – In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France … but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne’s home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive.

Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can … completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others.

With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women’s war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France―a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.