I picked up the audio version of this book mostly because I had read and enjoyed this authors' historical novel, The Red Tent, and I was curious to see how she would apply her unique voice and insight re women's issues to a more modern setting. This was certainly a different side to Anita Diamant, and I really very much doubt that having read this first I would have bothered to pick up The Red Tent.
I have to say I was somewhat disappointed and found this all very cliched. I was ready to be taken in by the friendship between Joyce and Kathleen but the predictable affair, the trauma and recovery from breast cancer (seems to be a prerequisite for women's novels somehow and I'm tired of it) , the teen parenting issues and then out of the blue some weird drug bust side plot just kinda left me cold.
Don't know if I'd have finished it if it weren't for being trapped in the car with it in traffic.
Jayne
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