{"product_id":"the-calamity-club","title":"The Calamity Club","description":"\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"196\" data-end=\"281\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"196\" data-end=\"281\"\u003eFive women. One broken county. A secret alliance that was never meant to survive.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"283\" data-end=\"301\"\u003eMississippi, 1932.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"303\" data-end=\"452\"\u003eThe banks are taking farms. Schools are closing. Families are disappearing overnight. And in Cypress County, everyone seems to owe someone something.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"454\" data-end=\"601\"\u003eWhen Evelyn Cade returns home after her father’s death, she plans to bury him, sell his failing general store, and leave the Delta behind for good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"603\" data-end=\"636\"\u003eThen she finds the second ledger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"638\" data-end=\"815\"\u003eHidden among ordinary accounts are names, favors, forgiven debts, medicine bought for strangers, train tickets paid in secret, and promises her father never intended to collect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"817\" data-end=\"864\"\u003eWhat Evelyn discovers is not a business record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"866\" data-end=\"890\"\u003eIt is a map of survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"892\" data-end=\"1339\"\u003eSoon, four women are pulled into her orbit. Ruth Bell, a schoolteacher fighting to keep her children in a classroom. June Avery, a planter’s wife hiding the collapse of a once-powerful family. Mae Belle Crowe, a traveling seamstress with a battered Chevrolet and a talent for knowing what everyone else has missed. And Nell Freeman, a seventeen-year-old sharecropper’s daughter whose gift for numbers uncovers something no one was supposed to see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1341\" data-end=\"1381\"\u003eAt first, they help one another quietly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1383\" data-end=\"1399\"\u003eA sack of flour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1401\" data-end=\"1419\"\u003eA ride after dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1421\" data-end=\"1452\"\u003eA debt paid before foreclosure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1454\" data-end=\"1484\"\u003eA woman hidden before morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1486\" data-end=\"1539\"\u003eThey call themselves \u003cstrong data-start=\"1507\" data-end=\"1528\"\u003eThe Calamity Club\u003c\/strong\u003e as a joke.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1541\" data-end=\"1573\"\u003eThen the joke becomes a network.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1575\" data-end=\"1609\"\u003eAnd the network becomes dangerous.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1611\" data-end=\"1678\"\u003eBecause someone is profiting from every family that loses its land.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1680\" data-end=\"1712\"\u003eSomeone is changing the numbers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1714\" data-end=\"1734\"\u003eSomeone is watching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1736\" data-end=\"1914\"\u003eAs secrets spread from dusty farm roads to courthouse offices, and the Mississippi River begins to rise, the women discover that surviving calamity may require more than courage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1916\" data-end=\"1996\"\u003eIt may require standing together when everything they love is about to be taken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1998\" data-end=\"2255\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1998\" data-end=\"2255\"\u003eRich with friendship, betrayal, buried truths, impossible choices, and the fierce power of women who refuse to let one another fall, \u003cem data-start=\"2133\" data-end=\"2152\"\u003eThe Calamity Club\u003c\/em\u003e is a sweeping historical novel about what happens when ordinary people decide they have lost enough.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"2257\" data-end=\"2334\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"2257\" data-end=\"2334\" data-is-last-node=\"\"\u003eSome disasters destroy lives. Others reveal who was willing to save them.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sage House","offers":[{"title":"Perfect Bound","offer_id":67759883419952,"sku":"9786416897595","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/the-calamity-club","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}