A Book Club is always a good way to bond with those people who share your love of books, but occasionally the group needs a little prompting on discussion topics to get the conversation flowing. Please find below a few ideas to get things started.
- What were you expecting from this book to start with? Did it meet those expectations? If not, what was different?
- How did you feel about Lily’s decisions before and after she learned of Ryles dissociations?
- What effect did this book have on your understanding of domestic violence and those people on both sides of those relationships?
- Lily still loves Ryle, despite everything – why? Do you believe that love and hate can coexist in the same relationship?
- Many years passed before Lily saw Atlas again, yet the relationship seemed to start where it left off. Are there any other similar relationships in literature that set an expectation for you as to how this would play out?
- Lily wrote her diary as a series of letters to Ellen DeGeneres – who would you write yours to?
- After the first violent altercation what did you think of Lilys stance, and how had it changed by the end of the book?
- Lily runs a flower shop ‘for people who hate flowers’ – what would your dream business be if you were the main character in a romance novel.
- “There is no such thing as bad people, we’re all just people who sometimes do bad things” – discuss.
- Atlas and Lily use ‘just keep swimming’ as their hopeful mantra – what is yours?
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