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Summary: Not the best book
Review: Judith Henry Wall latest novel, The Girlfriends Club takes us to the state of Kansas.Four women, who have been friends since childhood are now in their mid forties and learning what life is like at mid-life after being divorced. Meet MARY SUE the spark amongst them, who is about to have a breast operation. She is involved with Walter; a dentist since her divorce, but even then, she cannot get her ex-husband Barry off of her mind. DIXIE the flower shop owner who never complains but has good reason not to. She has hidden a secret from her friends for some time now. GRETCHEN the tall blond sports oriented woman who hates her husband with a passion, and wishes he were dead. PAMELA the only one of the women still married to her husband Clay; a Judge who directs her every move. However, on Mary Sue's 45th birthday, the day before her operation the girls decide to gather at Dixie's Lakeside retreat to celebrate her birthday with dinner and drinks and lots of moral support. They enjoy themselves but soon realize that Walter; Mary Sue current beau who was supposed to join them for drinks, is noticeably absent. Having had a bit too much fun, Mary Sue goes off to bed early leaving her friends to entertain him when he arrives.
Walter turns up intoxicated and totally out of it and then something very awry happens....something accidental...and the women make a conscious decision not to let Mary Sue know of this occurrence. What happens that night will live in the memories of the three women for the rest of their lives. See how their lives are played out after this incident and I'm sure you'll have little anxious moments waiting to see what transpires next. Besides the little mystery here, there are some tender and heartfelt moments which will keep the reader eager and glued to the book as I was. This would be a wonderful Xmas or Birthday gift for a good friend especially if bought in the hard cover edition. Happy reading!!
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Summary: A LOVELY BOOK FOR ALL WOMEN
Review: Judith Henry Wall latest novel, The Girlfriends Club takes us to the state of Kansas. Four women, who have been friends since childhood are now in their mid forties and learning what life is like at mid-life after being divorced. Meet MARY SUE the spark amongst them, who is about to have a breast operation. She is involved with Walter; a dentist since her divorce, but even then, she cannot get her ex-husband Barry off of her mind. DIXIE the flower shop owner who never complains but has good reason not to. She has hidden a secret from her friends for some time now. GRETCHEN the tall blond sports oriented woman who hates her husband with a passion, and wishes he were dead. PAMELA the only one of the women still married to her husband Clay; a Judge who directs her every move. However, on Mary Sue's 45th birthday, the day before her operation the girls decide to gather at Dixie's Lakeside retreat to celebrate her birthday with dinner and drinks and lots of moral support. They enjoy themselves but soon realize that Walter; Mary Sue current beau who was supposed to join them for drinks, is noticeably absent. Having had a bit too much fun, Mary Sue goes off to bed early leaving her friends to entertain him when he arrives.
Walter turns up intoxicated and totally out of it and then something very awry happens....something accidental...and the women make a conscious decision not to let Mary Sue know of this occurrence. What happens that night will live in the memories of the three women for the rest of their lives. See how their lives are played out after this incident and I'm sure you'll have little anxious moments waiting to see what transpires next. Besides the little mystery here, there are some tender and heartfelt moments which will keep the reader eager and glued to the book as I was. This would be a wonderful Xmas or Birthday gift for a good friend especially if bought in the hard cover edition. Happy reading!!
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Summary: realistic depiction about four women friends
Review: They have been the best of friends for thirty-nine years and on Mary Sue's forty-fifth birthday, they celebrate it at the lake cabin of Dixie's father's. It is a bittersweet time for them as well as Pamela and Gretchen because the next day Mary Sue is going in for a radical mastectomy. Mary Sue's boyfriend Walter is supposed to show up but when Dixie calls him he says he is not coming.
Dixie, knowing how hurt Mary Sue will be, blackmails Walter into coming but when he arrives, Mary Sue is drunk and unconscious. Walter trips while arguing with Dixie and Gretchen, and breaks his neck. To spare them all embarrassment, the women put him in his car and roll it into the lake. During the following year, heartache, happiness and sorrow hit the women, but mostly Walter's death hangs over THE GIRLFRIENDS' CLUB like the Sword of Damocles
Readers who are fans of Belva Plain and Barbara Delinsky will want to read THE GIRLFRIEND'S CLUB. The story is a realistic depiction about four women who let nothing get in the way of their friendship though the reasoning behind burying Walter in the lake seems shaky in spite of the quartet suffering from shock. This very gritty novel doesn't have a happily ever after ending but it is a book that will satisfy anyone who has known pain in their life, which is just about everyone. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Not the best book
Review: This book failed to 'draw me into' the story. I stopped about half way through it - not wanting to waste my time finishing it. I did, however - pick it up a month later and finsh. The second half was better than the first, I thought.
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Summary: FRIENDS FOREVER!!
Review: This is a story of four women who are now 45 yrs. old and have been very best friends since first grade. Pamela is the only one of the four who is still married. Mary Sue, Gretchen, and Debbie each had a husband who left them for other women, leaving them devastated and lonely....On Mary Sue's 45th birthday celebration at the lakefront home of Debbie's family where they have spent many happy hours since childhood, unbeknownst to Mary Sue, her boyfriend has an accident and disappears. This secret is shared by her three friends.....The friends have gone through many ups and downs in their lives and have each been there for each other all these many years......Will this secret tear them apart at this time of their lives when they are trying to rebuild their shattered lives?.....Mary Sue is trying to survive cancer and Pamela, even though she is married has not been happy in her marriage to a very controlling husband......Read this book and find out what happens to these friends.
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Summary: What Women Will Do for Love!
Review: We all know the ends women will go to in hopes of keeping a good man -- or a bad one for that matter! This book shows how far women will go to keep a woman friend! The life-long friendships of the four main characters is wonderfully portrayed. I, too, have friendships that go back to childhood. We keep in touch with almost daily e-mails and help each other. If presented with the situation the women of the "Girlfiend's Club" face, I hope we'd be as brave as Mary Sue's friends.
This is a book about courage and friendship and how a team of friends help each other though life's many crises -- including breast cancer.
If you can relate to being part of a "Friendship Club," buy more than one copy. You will want to share it!
Speaking of friendship, I've known Judith since we were both struggling writers. Now, even though she's successful and I'm resigned to being mostly a reader, I'm not jealous. I know how hard Judy works and how much she cares about her characters. Each of her books seems written just for me! Reading her books will make you feel you, too, have found an understanding friend!
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Summary: What Women Will Do for Love!
Review: We all know the ends women will go to in hopes of keeping a good man -- or a bad one for that matter! This book shows how far women will go to keep a woman friend! The life-long friendships of the four main characters is wonderfully portrayed. I, too, have friendships that go back to childhood. We keep in touch with almost daily e-mails and help each other. If presented with the situation the women of the "Girlfiend's Club" face, I hope we'd be as brave as Mary Sue's friends.
This is a book about courage and friendship and how a team of friends help each other though life's many crises -- including breast cancer.
If you can relate to being part of a "Friendship Club," buy more than one copy. You will want to share it!
Speaking of friendship, I've known Judith since we were both struggling writers. Now, even though she's successful and I'm resigned to being mostly a reader, I'm not jealous. I know how hard Judy works and how much she cares about her characters. Each of her books seems written just for me! Reading her books will make you feel you, too, have found an understanding friend!
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