Never underestimate the power of a woman with a shop full of books

Boston, 1954. Escaping her old life half-way across the country, Alice Campbell starts over by transforming a derelict building into a bookshop, not far from Radcliffe College and its bright young women. Alice is on a mission to help other women reconsider their traditional roles. With a spoiled debutante, a tomboy, and an ambitious scholarship winner as her founding members, she creates a book club with one simple goal: change the members’ lives.

So when everything they know about themselves—and each other—is called into question, the women must rely on the friendships they forged diligently reading classics together to give them strength.