The Wednesday Sisters: A Novel (edit title)

Colleen S edited the characters of The Wednesday Sisters: A Novel 4 days ago.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
• Added the description of Frankie: one of the Wednesday Sisters, a group of friends who start as a book group and evolve into a writing group
• marked the description of Frankie as not a spoiler

LoveChickLit82 edited the first sentence of The Wednesday Sisters: A Novel Thursday, November 19 2009.

• The Wednesday sisters look like the kind of women who might meet at those fancy coffee shops on University-we do look that way-but we're not one bit fancy, and we're not sisters, either.

Shelfari edited the description of The Wednesday Sisters: A Novel Saturday, August 1 2009.

• 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. For thirty-five years, Frankie, Linda, Kath, Brett, and Ally have met every Wednesday at the park near their homes in Palo Alto, California. Defined when they first meet by what their husbands do, the young homemakers and mothers are far removed from the Summer of Love that has enveloped most of the Bay Area in 1967. These “Wednesday Sisters” seem to have little in common: Frankie is a 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 both literature–Fitzgerald, Eliot, Austen, du Maurier, Plath, and Dickens–and the Miss America Pageant, which they watch together every year. As the years roll on and their children grow, the quintet forms a writers circle to express 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 one another through changes in their personal lives brought on by infidelity, longing, illness, failure, and success. Humorous and moving, The Wednesday Sisters is a literary feast for book lovers that earns a place among those popular works that honor the joyful, mysterious, unbreakable bonds between friends.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Wednesday Sisters: A Novel Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Meg Waite Clayton: (Primary Author)