 June 25, 2008
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
$25.00
Women's Fiction
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 literature—Fitzgerald, Eliot,
Austen, du Maurier, Plath, and Dickens—and 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 making—Vietnam, the
race for the moon, and a Women's Movement that challenges
everything they have ever thought about themselves—while at
the same time supporting each other through changes in
their personal lives brought on by infidelity, longing,
illness, failure, and success.
Comments
11 comments posted.
Re: The Wednesday Sisters
Meg, This book sounds like a wonderful book! It is definitely on my list to read! Thanks for writing for all of us readers.
(Dianne Westbrook 8:03am August 19, 2008)
Meg's blog is 1st Books: Stories of How Writers Get Started
(Kathy Roberts 10:57am August 20, 2008)
Fantastic Author and Meg's Blog is 1st Books: Stories of How Writers Get Started. Thanks and God bless you!
(Cecilia Dunbar Hernandez 1:43pm August 21, 2008)
1st Books: Stories of How Writers Get Started is the name of Meg's blog.
(Marla Alleman 7:04pm August 24, 2008)
Very nice and interesting interview!
(Val Brice 10:29pm August 27, 2008)
Stories of How Writers Get Started is the name of Meg's Blog
(Karen Zylstra 8:25pm September 1, 2008)
1st Books: Stories of How Writers Get Started
The Wednesday Sisters sounds very good! I'm looking forward to reading it!
(Carol Mintz 1:17pm September 4, 2008)
Meg's blog is 1st Books: Stories of How Writers Get Started
(Jobie Marshall 7:14pm September 5, 2008)
I would love to win a copy of this book; it's been on my wish list! Meg's blog is named 1st Books: Stories of How Writers Get Started.
(Dawn Rennert 7:52am September 8, 2008)
The name of Meg's blog is:
"1st Books: Stories of How Writers Get Started". I've read many reviews on this book and would so love to win a copy. Thank you for the opportunity and Best of Luck to you Meg!!!
Darby
(Darby Lohrding 10:16am September 10, 2008)
Meg' Blog is named 1st Books: Stories of How Writers Get Started. Great contest!
(Peggy Gorman 9:42am September 14, 2008)
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