With timely themes and complex characters, and focusing on the desires, flaws, dreams, and relationships between many different types of women across several decades, this will be perfect for book clubs.

EVERYTHING LOST RETURNS
by Sarah Domet
Flatiron Books/SMP, February 2026

It’s 1910 and Opal, on the run from her abusive husband, has become an Earthshine girl—working in a factory owned by the illustrious Tuttle family to make the extremely popular Earthshine soap. Despite her newfound financial independence, Opal can’t help but notice that many of the Earthshine girls are falling sick, and they all suffer the same symptoms—is it possible that the soap, and the Tuttle family, could be responsible?

Meanwhile, in 1986, struggling soap opera actress Nona Dixon owes everything to Bertie Tuttle, who put Nona’s face on Earthshine soap when she was a child and made her a star. But when Nona starts doing some digging on her benefactor, she begins to uncover a dark history surrounding Bertie, Opal, and the soap that binds all three women together.

Gorgeously written and intricately constructed, EVERYTHING LOST RETURNS is a story of friendship and betrayal, guilt and redemption, and the power we have, in our own small way, to change the course of history

Sarah Domet’s debut novel, The Guineveres, received rave reviews everywhere from The New York Times Book Review to People Magazine to Elle. Sarah lives in Savannah, Georgia.