Team B’s Top Books of 2025 – Juliette

We’re counting down to Christmas with Team B’s books of the year… here’s Juliette’s shortlist, with Slanting Towards the Sea by Lidija Hilje taking the coveted top spot!

What Ivona and Vlaho shared was a love so utterly fulfilling that their separation was unfathomable. Even more baffling is her post-divorce friendship with Vlaho, his new wife and kids. But as Ivona faces further upheavals, secrets resurface, threatening to expose old wounds. Juliette says: “I was profoundly moved by Hilje’s compassionate story. With intimate intensity, it explores complex moral questions, aching loss, connection and betrayal – all amidst the sun-baked olive groves of her native Croatia.”

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