A New York Times <\/i><\/b>100 Notable Books of 2025<\/b>
A Read With Jenna Book Club Pick September 2025<\/p>\n
<\/b>One town. Two families. A secret that changes everything.<\/b><\/p>\n
‘Poignant, powerful’ Independent<\/b><\/i>
‘Omniscient, sweeping, almost defiantly sentimental’ New York Times<\/b><\/i>
‘It’s not just a great Midwestern novel, it’s a great novel, period’ Financial Times<\/i><\/b>
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MAY, 1945. As news of the Allied victory in Europe reaches the small town of Bonhomie, Ohio, a woman named Margaret Salt walks into a hardware store and asks the man behind the counter, Cal Jenkins, for a radio. What happens next will change both of their lives forever.<\/p>\n
While the country reconstructs in the post-war boom, a secret grows in Bonhomie – but nothing can remain hidden in a small town. The consequences of that long-ago encounter will intertwine the fates of two families, rippling through the next generation and compelling them to re-examine who they thought they were and what the future might hold.<\/p>\n
Full of compassion, humour and charm, Buckeye <\/i>is a dazzling portrait of the human spirit by way of one unforgettable community; the twisted roads we take to achieve forgiveness and redemption; and above all a universal longing for love and connection.
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‘I’ve been yearning for a novel that connects the American generations who dealt with our two Wars – one of Omaha Beach, the other of the Ia Drang Valley. Buckeye<\/i> is that book, and it soars’ TOM HANKS
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‘Funny and tender… Patrick Ryan has long been one of my favourite writers’ ANN PATCHETT<\/b><\/p>\n
‘I love this novel with my entire heart … Wise and heartbreaking’ ANN NAPOLITANO<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Propelled by an irresistible cast of characters, Buckeye<\/i> is a warm, funny and emotionally affecting novel about two families living in one small town, bound together by secrets that will not stay buried<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[216],"product_tag":[26844,26960],"class_list":{"0":"post-109839","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-fiction-hardback","6":"product_tag-family-life-fiction","7":"product_tag-generational-sagas","8":"pa_book_author-ryan-patrick","9":"pa_cover-hardback","10":"pa_dewey-813-6-edition23","11":"pa_edition-hardback-original","12":"pa_imprint-bloomsbury","13":"pa_language-english","14":"pa_pages-9842","15":"pa_publisher-bloomsbury","16":"pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","18":"first","19":"onbackorder","20":"taxable","21":"shipping-taxable","22":"purchasable","23":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n