Skip to content

The Extraordinary Hope of Dawn Brightside by Jessica Ryn

We have 5 sets of 5 copies of The Extraordinary Hope of Dawn Brightside available to giveaway to reading groups! Could you be one of our lucky readers? If you’d like a set, please contact us on the email address below; the first 5 groups to email will receive the books.

She’s not lost. She’s just waiting to be found…

Dawn Elisabeth Brightside has been running from her past for twenty-two years and two months, precisely. So when she is offered a bed in St Jude’s Hostel for the Homeless, it means so much more than just a roof over her head.

But with St Jude’s threatened with closure, Dawn worries that everything is about to crumble around her all over again. Perhaps, with a little help from her new friends, she can find a way to save this light in the darkness?

And maybe, just maybe, Dawn will finally have a place to call home…

‘Completely beguiling – a messy, loveable cast of characters with Dawn at the centre, bringing the light. A truly lovely read’ Beth Morrey

‘Dawn Brightside is the heroine we never knew we needed’ Roxie Cooper

‘Charming, moving and joyous’ Alice Peterson

‘This the book we all need right now: a story of kindness and hope. I absolutely loved it’ Anstey Harris

Don’t miss Jessica Ryn’s utterly charming feel-good debut novel; the perfect book to share with your reading group.

News

Radio 2 Book Club - Winter titles

The Winter season of the Radio 2 Book Club is out now, with brilliant brand-new fiction titles to discover. The BBC Radio 2 Book Club is on the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show. It features a wide range of titles and authors, recommending great reads from both new and much-loved writers, encouraging listeners to perhaps try out a genre they might not have read before, and share their opinions and insights on the titles and great reads they’re enjoying right now.

Resources

How to start a reading group

Interested in joining a reading group or starting one of your own? Download our quick guide to getting started. You can also download icebreaker questions to help get your discussion started, and a social media guide to show how you can share your reading with others online.

News

Discussion guides

We know how useful a discussion guide is for your book club meeting, so here you’ll find some recent guides provided by publishers. Free to download, you can use them to help choose your next book and guide your discussion.

View our other programmes