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The Wednesday Sisters

By Meg Waite Clayton

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| Hardcover | 9780345502827

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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 Continue

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.

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  • Bookreporter.com - THE WEDNESDAY SISTERS by Meg Waite Clayton

    “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. We don’t even meet on Wednesdays anymore, although we ... (read full critics)

    bookreporter published on Sat, 28 Aug 2010

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  • I wasn't too sure I was going to like this book but I'm glad I stuck it out. It turned out to be a pretty good story and I wouldn't mind trying another book by this author.

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  • I enjoyed The Wesdnesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton. It is the story of five women who meet as young mothers and follows their friendship through years of joy and sadness. What I really appreciated about this story how Meg Clayton shows how the friendships are built over time and evolve as time pa ... (continue)

    I enjoyed The Wesdnesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton. It is the story of five women who meet as young mothers and follows their friendship through years of joy and sadness. What I really appreciated about this story how Meg Clayton shows how the friendships are built over time and evolve as time passes. I felt it was unlike many of the chit-lit female friendship books I have read in the past, where all the characters bond immediatly and the circle is never broken. The Wednesday Sisters has more depth than that, it shows the intricacies and sometimes pain that true friendships always endure. I found it a powerful novel that I could believe and it was all the more rewarding because of that.

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    Icedream said on Jun 12, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 320 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0345502825
  • ISBN-13: 9780345502827
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books
  • Pub date: Jun 17, 2008
  • Also available as: Paperback and Others
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