Kathryn Stockett: "I wrote a doorstopper!"

17 years after The Help, Kathryn Stockett is back with The Calamity Club - and it was worth the wait

And what a book it is. 656 pages absolutely fly by. You will wish it was longer. It is a big-hearted, rollicking adventure with characters which will take up residence in your head. A tour de force of storytelling about courageous, resourceful women, found family, prejudice, money and the lack thereof, and the primal longing of mother for child, and chi…