Friendship, loyalty, and love lie at the heart of Meg Waite Clayton's beautifully written, poignant, and sweeping novel of five women who, over the course of four decades, come to redefine what it means to be family.
Ballantine
June 2008
On Sale: June 17, 2008
284 pages ISBN: 0345502825 EAN: 9780345502827 Hardcover Add to Wish List
Friendship, loyalty, and love lie at the heart of Meg Waite Clayton's beautifully written, poignant, and sweeping novel of five women who, over the course of four decades, come to redefine what it means to be family.
In the late 1960s, Frankie, Linda, Kath, Brett, and Ally begin meeting every Wednesday at the park in Palo Alto, California. Defined when they first meet mainly by what their husbands do, the young homemakers and mothers are far removed from the Summer of Love. These "Wednesday Sisters" seem to have little in common: Frankie is the timid transplant from Chicago, brutally blunt Linda is a remarkable athlete, Kath is a Kentucky debutante, quiet Ally has a secret, and quirky, ultra-intelligent Brett wears little white gloves with her miniskirts. But they are bonded by a shared love of literatureβFitzgerald, Eliot, Austen, du Maurier, Plath, and Dickensβand the Miss America Pageant they watch together every year.
As the years roll on and their children grow, the quintet forms a writers' circle to parlay their hopes and dreams through poems, stories and, eventually, books. Along the way, they experience history in the makingβVietnam, the race for the moon, and a Women's Movement that challenges everything they have ever thought about themselvesβwhile at the same time supporting each other through changes in their personal lives brought on by infidelity, longing, illness, failure, and success.
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