The Calamity Club by Kathryn Stockett features a group of unbreakable women in 1933 Mississippi who are fighting to claim what’s rightfully theirs as the Depression tightens its grip.

When unmarried and opinionated Birdie Calhoun meets Charlie, a woman with nothing left to lose, their fates - and that of 11-year-old orphan Meg - converge with those of a band of undaunted, disreputable women as they form an audacious plan to take back control of their lives. But in a place and time where hypocrisy is rife, where women’s freedom is fragile, and where making an enemy can have calamitous consequences, will the price they pay for their outrageous risk-taking be too high?

Bold, heartwarming, and bracingly funny, The Calamity Club is a story about the many ways female agency can be thwarted, and of those determined to take it back, no matter the cost.

Stockett’s first novel, The Help, has sold over 15 million copies worldwide and was translated into 35 languages. The Calamity Club is her second novel.