Five Women

Five Women

Rona Jaffe

Fiction

466 pages

copyright: 1997

isbn: 1-55166-424-0

Once a week five women meet over dinner and drinks at the Yellowbird, their favorite Manhattan bar. To teh shared table they bring their troubled past, their hidden secrets.  And through their friendship, each one will find a courageous new beginning.

Billie--the enigmatic owner of the Yellowbird and a single mother; her scar is a reminder of lost dreams and new foundhope

Gera--a successful psychologist, she lends her help to others but denies it to herself.

Felicity--the brilliant attorney, emotionally chained to one abusive man and obsessed with another.

Kathryn-the devil-may-care adventuress still running from a shattering act of violence.

Eve--the actress, a volcano of anger, whose blind ambition could ultimately destroy the group.