It's another year of our Francophile Book club - and we are off to a great start. What better way to spend a winter's day but to curl up with a good book and a warm cup of tea or a glass of wine. 

Our next book is Pelican Girls by Julia Malye. 

Paris, 1720. La Salpêtrière hospital is in crisis: too many occupants, not enough beds. Halfway across the world, France's colony in the wilds of North America has space to spare and needs families to fill it. So the director of the hospital rounds up nearly a hundred female “volunteers” of childbearing age—orphans, prisoners, and mental patients—to be shipped to New Orleans.

Among this group are three unlikely friends: a sharp-tongued twelve-year old orphan, a mute ‘madwoman,’ and an accused abortionist. Charlotte, Pétronille, and Geneviève, along with the dozens of other women aboard La Baleine, have no knowledge of what lies ahead and now...read more

Join us Wednesday February 19th at 6:30pm ET US. To join our club and get updates throughout the year sign up here.

Happy reading!