Tonight, I’m meeting with a book club to talk about Two Wars and a Wedding— and I had one of those awful moments that sometimes happen to authors where I realized it’s been five books since I wrote Two Wars and I don’t remember my own characters’ names.

So I did what one does and went looking for the Readers’ Guide– only to realize that there is no Readers’ Guide.  Two Wars and a Wedding was a casualty of the Harper Collins strike a few years ago; the strike spanned the entire pre-pub period when things like Readers’ Guides and discussion questions generally happen.

Fine, I thought.  I’ll write one now!  I just made a Readers’ Guide for The Girl from Greenwich Street all by myself, so why not one for Two Wars and a Wedding?  (As you can tell, I’m procrastinating hard from the book I’m meant to be writing.)

Twenty pages of new Readers’ Guide later… I realized it’s much harder to write a Readers’ Guide for a book you researched and wrote six years ago and haven’t thought about in a while than it is for one you researched and wrote three years ago and have been speaking about constantly over the past year and a bit.

But what really got me stuck?  The discussion questions.  I hate, hate, hate writing discussion questions.  I am so grateful to my amazing editor, who usually writes the discussion questions for me– with the one exception, Two Wars and a Wedding.

So I’m appealing to you.  I have the rest of the Readers’ Guide covered (lots of historical background and even some outtakes coming your way soon!), but I could use some help with discussion questions.

Have you or your book club read Two Wars and a Wedding within recent memory?  What questions came up?  What did you discuss?  What would you like to discuss?  Any and all suggestions welcome!