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    Study Guide for Book Clubs: Before We Were Yours: Study Guides for Book Clubs, #32
    Study Guide for Book Clubs: Before We Were Yours: Study Guides for Book Clubs, #32
    Study Guide for Book Clubs: Before We Were Yours: Study Guides for Book Clubs, #32
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    Study Guide for Book Clubs: Before We Were Yours: Study Guides for Book Clubs, #32

    By Kathryn Cope

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    Whether you are a member of a book club, or simply reading Before We Were Yours for pleasure, this clear and concise guide, written by a specialist in literature, will greatly enhance your reading experience.

    A comprehensive guide to Lisa Wingate's bestselling novel Before We Were Yours, this discussion aid includes a wealth of information and resources: useful historical context; an author biography; a plot synopsis; analyses of themes & imagery; character analysis; twenty-two thought-provoking discussion questions; recommended further reading and even a quick quiz. For those in book clubs, this useful companion guide takes the hard work out of preparing for meetings and guarantees productive discussion. For solo readers, it encourages a deeper examination of a gripping historical novel.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKathryn Cope
    Release dateFeb 23, 2018
    ISBN9781386051572
    Study Guide for Book Clubs: Before We Were Yours: Study Guides for Book Clubs, #32
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    Kathryn Cope

    Kathryn Cope graduated in English Literature from Manchester University and obtained her master’s degree in contemporary fiction from the University of York. She is the author of Study Guides for Book Clubs and the HarperCollins Offical Book Club Guide series. She lives in the Staffordshire Moorlands with her husband, son and dog.

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      Study Guide for Book Clubs - Kathryn Cope

      Introduction

      There are few things more rewarding than getting together with a group of like-minded people and discussing a good book. Book club meetings, at their best, are vibrant, passionate affairs. Each member will bring along a different perspective and ideally there will be heated debate.

      A surprising number of book club members, however, report that their meetings have been a disappointment. Even though their group loved the particular book they were discussing, they could think of astonishingly little to say about it. Failing to find interesting discussion angles for a book is the single most common reason for book group discussions to fall flat. Most book groups only meet once a month and a lacklustre meeting is frustrating for everyone.

      Study Guides for Book Clubs were born out of a passion for reading groups. Packed with information, they take the hard work out of preparing for a meeting and ensure that your book group discussions never run dry. How you choose to use the guides is entirely up to you. The author biography, context, and style sections provide useful background information which may be interesting to share with your group at the beginning of your meeting. The all-important list of discussion questions, which will probably form the core of your meeting, can be found towards the end of this guide. To support your responses to the discussion questions, you may find it helpful to refer to the ‘Themes & Symbolism’ and ‘Character’ sections.

      A detailed plot synopsis is provided as an aide-memoire if you need to recap on the finer points of the plot. There is also a quick quiz - a fun way to test your knowledge and bring your discussion to a close. Finally, if this was a book that you particularly enjoyed, the guide concludes with a list of books similar in style or subject matter.

      Study Guides for Book Clubs are intended to enhance your appreciation of the original novel. They are not a substitute for reading the real thing. As this guide contains spoilers, please don’t be tempted to read it before you have read the original novel as plot surprises will be well and truly ruined.

      Kathryn Cope, 2018

      Lisa Wingate

      Lisa Wingate is an American writer who was raised in Oklahoma. Before becoming a full-time novelist, she worked as a journalist and a motivational speaker. Fiction writing was always on her to-do list; however, after a first-grade teacher praised her stories and said that, in the future, she expected to see her pupil’s name in a magazine.

      Wingate finally began writing novels when the eldest of her two sons was born. Her inspiration came in the form of a notebook of stories, written by her grandmother, about growing up during the Great Depression. This notebook sowed the seeds for her first novel. Wingate’s debut, Tending Roses, went on to be used to promote adult literacy both overseas and in the USA.

      The author and her family live in Texas along with a range of farm animals. Texas and its surrounding states have also provided inspiration for Wingate’s novels, which invariably have a distinctively Southern setting and flavour. After the publication of her first novel, she launched a number of fictional series: The Tending Roses series (Tending Roses, Good Hope Road, The Language of Sycamores, Drenched In Light, A Thousand Voices); the Carolina Heirlooms novels (The Sea Glass Sisters, The Prayer Box, The Tidewater Sisters, The Story Keeper, The Sandcastle Sister, The Sea Keeper’s Daughters); the Blue Sky Hills novels (A Month of Summer, The Summer Kitchen, Beyond Summer, Dandelion Summer); the Daily Texas Books (Talk Of the Town, Word Gets Around, Never Say Never); the Moses Lake series (Larkspur Cove, Blue Moon Bay, Firefly Island, Wildwood Creek); and the Texas Hill Country Books (Texas Cooking, Lone Star Café, Over the Moon at the Big Lizard Diner).

      Wingate aims to write life-affirming fiction making her work popular in both the mainstream and Christian publishing markets. Her novels have been translated into over twenty different languages. Her talent for storytelling has been rewarded with nominations for many awards, including the Oklahoma Book Award, the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize, The Carol Award, the Christy Award, and the RT Booklovers Reviewer’s Choice Award.

      While Wingate had already earned a loyal literary following, the publication of Before We Were Yours in 2017 brought her work to the attention of a much wider audience. Capturing the imagination of the reading public, the novel quickly became a New York Times bestseller and was voted the Best Work of Historical Fiction 2017 by the members of Goodreads.

      Link to Lisa Wingate’s website

      Plot Synopsis

      Thirty-year-old Avery Stafford lives in Maryland and is a successful lawyer. When her father, Senator Wells Stafford, is diagnosed with cancer, however, she temporarily moves back to her hometown of Aiken, South Carolina. Avery wants to support her father through his cancer treatment and is also aware that, if his health worsens, she is expected to step into his political shoes. Avery’s mother, ‘Honeybee’, is also eagerly expecting her daughter to announce a wedding date to her long-standing fiancé, Elliot.

      The Stafford

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