Barbara Raskin Bücher

The death of a friend will bring them back together after many years. In the familiar setting of the old house, where they once shared their little secrets and exchanged joys and sorrows, they will unfold their lives once again. Joan, Elaine, Kate, and Diana. Four mature women, all over forty-five, talk about their wild youth, the years of the feminist movement, and the challenges they faced. They reminisce about their great loves, their marriages, and the birth of their children. The echoes of passionate experiences from the past and the insecurities of the future, as they are confessed, outline not only the lives of these four women but also the portrait of a generation and an era. In this book, Barbara Raskin captures the desires and feelings of a generation. A milestone in women's fiction. "Funny, insightful, bold, and melancholic."

Natalie, a Washington, D.C. social worker married to her sister's ex-lover, finds herself unwittingly embroiled in secret plots, intrigue, and danger because of her sister Shay, a famed journalist noted for her outrageous stunts