Book: The Choral Society by Prue Leith

A book about 3 single middle-aged (just) women meeting in a choir is just what I needed. We have the super successful business person who’s managed to escape marriage, the serial philanderer who has one or two marriages under her belt and now works for her ex who pays her extravagant maintenance and the older, food critic widow. 

Food had to creep in there somewhere and the book opens with Lucy in her regular NYC hotel, loving life until she finds out she has lost her prime foodie publishing job to a young upstart. They are introduced to each other by the chap who runs the local choir in Notting Hill - they are so very obviously of the Notting Hill set although Rebecca the widow lives in her marital home a train ride away.

The synopsis states they bond over taking over an old hotel and set about restoring it but that story comes much later in the book.

It’s a little bit dated and I had to get used to 50-somethings talking like today’s 75-year-olds but I do like following the adventures of Rebecca,  Joanna and Lucy. It’s a satisfying gentle read, much like Prue’s other books.