I have some exciting news—my wonderful publisher, Simon & Schuster, is re-releasing all seven books in the Mother-Daughter Book Club series with brand new covers!
The new cover artwork is SO fresh and fun—and amazingly, the talented artist, Filipa Namorado, lives here in Portugal, just a couple of hours from where I live.
You can’t make this up. Right here in Portugal? Seriously?
But wait, there’s more…
Included in the final book in the series, Mother-Daughter Book Camp, will be an all-new epilogue, which I just finished writing! For some time now, eager readers have been writing to me, asking to know what happens to all of the girls. What careers do they choose? Where do they live? Do they marry and have children? Please please please could I give them a glimpse of their futures?
Wish granted!
No spoilers here, but I will tell you that the epilogue, which includes five full chapters (one each for Emma, Jess, Cassidy, Megan, and Becca), is set in Concord (of course), and finds the book club and their friends and families celebrating a baby shower. Whose? I’m not telling! You’ll have to read it to find out….
The first two books in the series, The Mother-Daughter Book Club and Much Ado About Anne, will be released in December 2025. The second two, Dear Pen Pal and Pies & Prejudice, will be released in May 2026. And the final three, Wish You Were Eyre, Home for the Holidays, and Mother-Daughter Book Camp, will be released in August 2026.
I can’t wait!
16 thoughts on “Exciting news!”
This is such exciting news!! Can’t wait to get all of the new covers and read the epilogue!
Yay! I’m excited too, Caitlyn! 🙂
Yay, so excited!
Me too, Val! 🙂
Greetings from the UK! My daughter and I are fans of the Mother-Daughter Book Club series going back to 2008. We are both thrilled by this news and are waiting as patiently as possible for the new epilogue. My daughter (who is now 28!) plans to re-read the series to prepare! Maybe she will share her books with me to do the same!
I love it! How fun! I was just in Edinburgh/London last week. 🙂
Beyond beyond excited!! This series was my adolescence defined and I can’t wait to see what happens in the new epilogues! Thank you for making my week start off happy!
Happy to help, Bronwynn! 🙂
Wow! I can’t wait to share this news with my young friend Kathryn to whom I sent the series several years ago. She adores the books and has reread them all. I know she will be so excited, especially about the epilogue! I’m excited about the epilogue too!
Yay! Thanks, Mary!
The best surprise I could have opened Instagram to see! I am now 29, with a husband and baby girl of my own, and these books have been a part of my life since I first picked them up at 12 years old. At least once a year I reread my favorites and it never is lost on me how remarkable it is that a story can become so entwined with a unique time in your life. I pick up my well loved copies during my daughter’s nap time and suddenly I can remember exactly how I felt being 12, 13, 14…and connecting so deeply with these characters. As each new book was released I grew up right alongside them and rereading these stories now brings me the same kind of nostalgic comfort as spending an afternoon in my childhood home, having a cup of tea with my mom. About once a year I take a day trip from the Cape up to Concord and spend an afternoon in town visiting historical sites and popping in my favorite shops, all the while trying to remember which street Emma’s house was on, or fondly recalling the snow storm Black Friday shopping trip that Megan and Becca took with Gigi where they visited all of the local shops and ended with their special pampering sessions at the spa. I could go on and on about the ways the MDBC series has held a piece of my heart over the past 17 years- through high school, college, studying abroad in London, beginning my teaching career, getting married, and now becoming a mother to a daughter of my own- so much of who I am has been shaped by this series. It is my hope that someday I will start a Mother Daughter Book club for my sweet little girl, and that these stories might be even a fraction as meaningful to her as they have been to me. Hopefully she’ll keep an open mind to one of Mom’s “musty dusty old (well loved) books.”
Thank you for revisiting this series again, Heather! Checking in on these longtime fictional friends in their adulthood is the most exciting news. If you ever plan another visit to the Concord or Brewster book stores to celebrate this re-release I’ll be sure to stop in 🩷
Oh my goodness, Brianna — thank you for your enthusiasm! I love that my books have “a piece of your heart,” as you put it — I couldn’t ask for higher praise than that. Congratulations on your baby girl! Hope our paths cross on the Cape one of these days. I get back there several times a year to visit family. 🙂
These covers are ADORABLE
Thanks, Jen! 🙂
I first read your books when I was in 6th grade, so the same age as the girls. It was so cool reading a series about girls around my age in each book and growing up with them. I didn’t have many friends when I was younger, so they were my friends in a way.
I have an email saved that I sent to you a LONG time ago and I was ecstatic that you replied! It meant the world to me as so many authors don’t reply.
I just turned 30 and still enjoy re-reading the books for nostalgia. I won’t be having kids of my own, but I look forward to buying copies for my nieces when they are old enough to enjoy them.
Looking forward to finding out how the characters lives turn out!
Awww, this makes me so happy! I hope you like reading the epilogue, AJ! 🙂