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Capturing the Texas Rancher's Heart

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
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THE WEDNESDAY SISTERS

Meg Waite Clayton

Meg Waite Clayton
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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.