For me this book was one I couldn’t put down. The main characters could have been women I knew, there was nothing overly exciting or dramatic going on but I could relate to this story. Two women who have full lives, husbands, careers, children, and yet needed another woman to talk to because having all those things, although wonderful, somtimes just isn’t enough. I think all women need a close friend to talk to, about nothing and everything.
One of the main characters battles breast cancer, and it almost seems to me that everyone out there knows someone who is battling it and we are becomming decesitized to it, until it happens to oneself that is. I just kept thinking of who I could lend this book to. Although I didn’t find the story inspiring, it didn’t make me want to move out to Cape Ann, but it did make me want to talk about it over coffee with my closest girlfriends (and that includes my mother in law!).
I recommend this book and I can’t wait to read Anita’s other popular novel, The Red Tent