The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted by Robert Hillman

In the early 1960's Tom is bereft when his wife, Trudy, leaves him. But she soon comes back to Hometown, the small outback town where Tom has a farm. However, she is pregnant with another man's child. Tom develops a real bond with Trudy's son Peter, but soon Trudy leaves for good with him, breaking Tom's heart. When Holocaust survivor Hannah moves to town to open up a bookshop, she and Tom fall in love. But Hannah is haunted by the death of her young son Michael in Auschwitz and the trauma of being the only one in her family to survive the war. Can Tom and Hannah's love for each other triumph over all the heartache they have been through? The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted is a novel with a great sense of place and characters whom the reader cares deeply for. A great choice for book clubs.