Our Book Club selection for April 2026.

“Broken Country” was my first foray into audiobooks. When I read the description of the book, and more so, I think the cover art made the book look depressing. I like to buy our monthly Book Club Book, and now, being a member for almost ten years, I have an entire bookshelf of monthly selections.

As a more rencently released book, it was not available at the library and the cheapest I could buy it was $15, which I didn’t want to do. My daughter raves about “Audible” and since I am an Amazon Prime member, I decided to give it a try.

The reader had a distinct Irish? Scottish? accent which I didn’t particularly care for. The story was good, but as the cover art seemed to depict, depressing. It would be a book I’d give a “C” to. Everyone at Book Club seemed to like it okay.

From Amazon:

Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth’s brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn’t realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager—the man who broke her heart years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son, who died in a tragic accident.

As Beth is pulled back into Gabriel’s life, tensions around the village rise and dangerous secrets and jealousies from the past resurface, this time with deadly consequences. Beth is forced to make a choice between the woman she once was, and the woman she has become.

A sweeping love story with the pace and twists of a thriller, Broken Country is a novel of simmering passion, impossible choices, and explosive consequences that toggles between the past and present to explore the far-reaching legacy of first love.