Monthly lunchtime book discussion group.The group will be discussing The Last Original Wife by Dorothea Benton Frank.

The discussion will take place online, via Zoom. Visit zoom.us to sign up for a free account and download the client onto your computer, or get the app for your smartphone. If you are not on the Book Group mailing list, send an email to Robin Carroll-Mann, the group moderator, to be added to the list and to receive an invitation to the Zoom meeting.

Because the library is closed, we are not able to offer paper copies for borrowing. The book is avaible as an e-book or e-audiobook through .Overdrive and as an e-audiobook from Hoopla. (A Summit library card is required to use these services; if you are from another town, check your local library's website to see what is available to you.) You can also purchase the e-book from Amazon or Barnes & Noble, or order a paperback copy from many book dealers.

Leslie Anne Greene Carter is The Last Original Wife among her husband Wesley’s wildly successful Atlanta social set. His cronies have all traded in the mothers of their children they promised to love and cherish—’til death did them part—for tanned and toned young Barbie brides.

If losing the social life and close friends she adored wasn’t painful enough, a series of setbacks shake Les’s world and push her to the edge. She’s had enough of playing the good wife to a husband who thinks he’s doing her a favor by keeping her around. She’s not going to waste another minute on people she doesn’t care to know. Now, she’s going to take some time for herself—in the familiar comforts and stunning beauty of Charleston, her beloved hometown. In her brother’s stately historic home, she’s going to reclaim the carefree girl who spent lazy summers sharing steamy kisses with her first love on Sullivans Island. Along Charleston’s live oak- and palmetto-lined cobblestone streets, under the Lowcountry’s dazzling blue sky, Les will indulge herself with icy cocktails, warm laughter, divine temptation and bittersweet memories. Daring to listen to her inner voice, she will realize what she wants . . . and find the life of which she’s always dreamed.