Loved the single mums book club! Lighthearted,funny, relatable read!
Steph is recently divorced with three young children and a dog, ground down with the daily monotony of being a single mum and job hunting and a lack of friends for support! A chance meeting in a supermarket when Steph has a meltdown results in a new friendship with her neighbour Janey, this results in an instant friend and the start of a book club! As time progresses others join the book club, romantic liaisons occur and life gets a whole lot better for the single mums book club members!
Random nights out, female solidarity and new romances abound although the path of true love certainly doesn’t run smoothly for Steph!
A great read about family life, second chances and friendship! Would highly recommend.
Thank you netgalley for this early read.

Stephanie is a recently divorced mother of three. She meets Janey and Amanda, and soon they form a friendship and a book club. She also starts working as a bookkeeper for the local vet.

This was an ok book but in my opinion the women's friendship lacked spark, and so did the romance at the beginning.

** Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC in exchange for my honest opinion. **

I absolutely adored this book!!! I loved reading about Stephanie and Janey's friendship grow! I loved them trying to figure out how to fit Amanda into the group even though they were hesitant at first. It was so wonderful to see supportive, healthy friendships. And don't get me started on Edward because wow I loved him. I even liked Mike by the time they had their heart to heart on her couch.

An enjoyable, if somewhat predictable about a group of women who support each other after each experiences a change in their marital status.

Can we give a round of applause to all the mums? You are warriors!

This book was first and foremost a self-love journey before it was a romance novel. A coming of age novel for

Stephanie is a former bookkeeper, divorced mum of three who is learning how to navigate life after her husband decides he can’t do it anymore. She meets Janey, her neighbor who is also going through life with a physically and mentally absent husband, and Amanda, a recently widowed older woman, and together they form the Single Mum’s Book Club. Their dynamic really shows how friendships can be formed as we mature and don’t have work or school to help with facilitating it.

Stephanie and Mike do a great job of showing the nuances of learning to co-parent (or actually parent for the first time on Mike’s side) and it shows how not every parental relationship needs to be completely one-sided. But her relationship with Edward, the hottie vet a village over (and her boss), is so natural and adorable, I squealed every time they were together. Edward is a quirky, awkward, but super nice gentleman, who accepts Steph for who she is and loves her because of everything she brings to the table, not despite it, and is even excited to spend time with her children.

4 out of 5 stars

Thanks to NetGalley and HQ (Harper Collins) for providing me with the eARC and the opportunity to read this work of art and for letting me meet an amazing author.

Thank you NetGalley for the e-ARC in exchange for an honest review. I tried really, really hard to get through this book but I did not finish. The characters all fell completely flat for me. Everyone was 2 dimensional and surface.

This story follows 3 single mums. Stephanie, the lead, struggles to find herself after her 'unreasonable' husband left. The story felt very formulaic. Husband leave, Single Mum Struggles, Falls into Job, falls for the boss. It sounded like it should have been a really solid rom-com. The problem was no relationship was defined enough nor was any character developed enough to like them or the story.

3.5 stars. A cute story about finding yourself and finding a family.

Stephanie is a newly-single mum with three kids. Her husband decided he didn't want to stay in a relationship and left. She's just trying to get by and keep her head above water. After a very rough day, she runs into her neighbor and they strike up a conversation. Over the next several weeks, they form a book club, make new friends, rekindle old friendships, and maybe even find love.

This book is really about figuring out who you are and what you want from your life. Stephanie really grows and discovers that family doesn't have to mean just mom and dad and kids; it can be so much more. I really enjoyed this story, but I don't think that it primarily reads as a romance. I think it falls much more under women's fiction (or, honestly, general fiction, since women's fiction is a frustrating category), despite being marketed as a romance. There is romance, but this book is really about Stephanie growing as a person.

Trigger warnings: (violent) death of a parent; on-page description of homicide; PTSD (not called this, but has all the hallmarks)

This is exactly my kind of book....funny, charming, romantic and with interesting, lovable characters. Three struggling women who have each other’s backs as they sort out their love lives....what’s not to like?! The characters do vary in age range so I’d recommend this book to women of all ages who are looking for a light hearted read.

The Single Mums' Book Club by Victoria Cooke is a hilarious and sweet look into the life of Stephanie as she meanders through raising her children amidst a devastating divorce and searching for a new job. After facing rejection from her former friends, Stephanie joins forces with several single ladies from her village to form a book club. Along the way, Stephanie becomes a secretary at the local vet's office and naturally, romance ensues. Without going into details about the relationship, I absolutely fell in love with the work's hero. He was everything the perfect book boyfriend would strive to be. I delighted in the literary references from book club meetings and how their insights into works such as Jane Eyre and Eleanor Oliphant altered their failing marriages and new relationships. The only thing I wasn't a fan of in this book was the trope of the ex-husband returning to ask for reconciliation. That being said, it led to a very interesting decision that displayed Stephanie's growth along her journey for self-discovery and meaning. I highly recommend The Single Mums' Book Club for all fans of works such as The Jane Austen Book Club and Kiley Dubar's Borrow a Bookshop Holiday,

Stephanie is a divorced mother of three. Like most mothers her life is one of constant frenzy, trying to get three children and a dog ready and out of the house to various appointments on time. Her ex-husband Mike wanted to be alone, free from the demands of wife and children. Although he shares custody he is prone to telling Stephanie that he can't pick the kids up until Saturday morning (instead of Friday after school) because he wants to go out with his mates after work. Just your typical middle-aged man trying to be the perpetual teenager with no responsibilities. Even worse, all their friends were Mike's work colleagues and their wives who have ghosted Stephanie since the divorce.

On a day where she was late dropping to kids off at school, and made the cardinal sin of reversing outside the school, had a confrontation with one of her so-called ex-friends in the supermarket, and didn't have enough money in her purse to buy toilet roll, she starts sobbing in the supermarket where she is rescued by her neighbour Janey. Although they have never really spoken properly before Janey is a true friend and the two of them are soon thinking of ways to drink prosecco in each other's homes (cheaper than going out out) - hence the book club was born.

Soon the book club gathers other waifs and strays and together these women give each other the confidence to try again - in Steph's case to flex her rusty bookkeeping muscles part-time at the local vet's surgery.

This was a charming read, light-hearted, funny, with some serious moments too.

I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.

This was a cute concept of a story, I just didn’t much out of it. It was very predictable and didn’t offer much of a difference from other new divorced, single mom, trying start life again books. Skimmed my way through

I enjoyed this book so much! Anytime books mention other books in them, they’re automatically a favorite of mine.

This book was so interesting because it shows how single moms are supposed to be able to handle everything and it was sweet to see other single moms helping each other out. I appreciated how these characters who seemed unlikely to get along became real close with everyone and supporting them through everything.

The hint of romance between one of the moms Stephanie and the Vet was just really sweet and adorable!

The title got my attention! As an avid reader I love when books talk about reading books or being in a book club of any kind. This book does a great job of that but it is so much more. It’s a book about friendship, relationships, overcoming trauma and family. I loved the book from start to finish, the characters felt very believable and the plot is relatable.
Definitely would recommend picking this one up when it releases.

Whether you’re a single mum, a working mum, a home maker, a step parent, this book will strike many a chord! I actually think it should be required reading before being allowed to procreate 😂 Joke! Well, only just a little.

This book captures the challenges of a busy mother in today’s world so perfectly, add to it a breakup, a need to find yourself again after motherhood, the loss of a loved one, the need to protect your children no matter what and the scary, insanely intense and magical moment of falling in love for real and you have an amazing story.

It’s a book of finding strong friendships too when you least expect it, of love and loss, learning when a risk is worth taking, and taking control of your life again.

It was also hilarious. Packed with so many one-liners that had me cracking up page after page. And when I least expected it too, the situation could be super serious or emotional and Steph would think something that had me laughing out loud.

I very highly recommend it, especially to all my mummy friends!! ❤️

“One thing they don’t tell you about having kids is that the toilet becomes a sort of sanctuary of bliss.” This line made me laugh out loud because it's so accurate. Stephanie is a single mother of 3 children, who’s dealing with the aftermath of a divorce and coming to terms with the chaos that is motherhood, money worries and finding work. She bumps into her neighbour in the supermarket after a particularly hard day and they become friends and start a book club.
From page one I loved this book, I even managed to finish the whole book in one day, as a single mother myself I instantly connected to Stephanie and the daily struggles of motherhood. It’s a very easy read that made me smile and laugh a few times. It helps the reader understand what it’s like to be a single mother, trying to juggle everything life throws at you. Beautifully written, I would definitely recommend this book.
Overall rating: 4 ⭐

This was a story of how women are stronger than they think they are. It was nice to see a variety of characters. The ending was good to see too.

The single mums book club has Stephanie a divorced mother of three young children tying and failing to juggle her life and finances. She meets Janey a neighbour and they decide to start a book club to have more time to themselves, also joining in is Amanda a widow, not many books get read or discussed.
Steph then decides to try sort her life out and obtains a job book keeping at a local veterinarian surgery owned by vet Edward, a slow romance ensues, and that’s basically it. I’m afraid I didn’t find any laugh out loud or even very humorous moments, maybe the odd thing that made me smile. For me there was just no depth to this book, we learned very little about the main characters in particular Edward, he said he’d had a wife 3 years previously, what happened? Was he divorced, widowed, any children ? Nothing absolutely nothing about one of the main characters.
Because there was no exploration of the characters this just made the book totally bland for me. It was easy to read and flowed along but by the end I really didn’t care what happened to any of them.
I’m sure there will be others that will enjoy this light read, unfortunately not for me.
My thanks to net galley and publisher for the opportunity to review this book honestly.

I absolutely loved this easy to read, funny book with warm characters that were so easy to relate to.

Stephanie is a divorced mum of three children, battling through the demands of daily life alongside job hunting.
Janey , mum of 2, with a rocky marriage, lives opposite but a chance meeting in a supermarket brings the 2 ladies close together. They begin to value their friendship and develop a book club for the 2 of them....aided by much prosecco and chatting.
A chance meeting with recently widowed Amanda broadens their group and support of each other.
Alongside this Stephanie manages to secure a job as book keeper at the local vets. Dashing vet Edward appears quite old fashioned as his computer system.
Having had a troubled childhood, with her mum dying when she was only 5 years old, Stephanie is desperate for the traditional family life but fate has not helped this journey.
This cosy book takes you thought the journey of friendship, support and relationships for these 3 central characters, with many misunderstandings along the way.
Highly recommend this fabulous read.

A fun and romantic read focusing on a woman completely exasperated with her mundane lifestyle and wanting to add some spark by way of joining a book club. A bright sparkle of a read!

This is a fun book about 3 single mums who come from very different walks of life and are each feeling alone and vulnerable until they find each other and decide to form a book club. This will be a great beach read this summer.
Steph is learning how to adjust to a new divorce, a husband who’s a bit of a pain and figuring out finances so she takes a job at the local vet’s office, where the doctor is a hunky bachelor who she has an instant connection with. Although she has always dreamed of the perfect family unit after losing her mother when she was a young girl, she realizes that maybe her husband wanting out of the marriage was the best thing for her and her kids once she starts to find her new normal.
There were several laughs and lots of feel good moments. There were a few more emotional bits, but overall it is a light and fun read.
Thanks to HQ Digital and Netgalley for this eArc in exchange for my review.