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.
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