The Mermaid Chair
Our Thoughts
Many of our group enjoyed this book but others weren’t impressed (aka, thought it was fluff), of the story of a woman, disillusioned with her marriage, who retreats to a shore community and begins an affair with a man, hiding from his own life in a monastery.
Fiction
Penguin
2006
335
Jessie Sullivan is summoned home to tiny Egret Island, where she meets Brother Thomas, a monk who is about to take his final vows, and encounters the legend of a mysterious chair dedicated to a saint who had originally been a mermaid.
