The Four Seasons - Mary Alice Monroe

The Four Seasons - Mary Alice Monroe
Fiction - 400 pages

From Back Of Book - A time for change...and second chances.
They are the Season sisters, bound by blood, driven apart by tragedy.  Now they are about to embark on a bittersweet journey into the unknown; an odyssey of promise and forgiveness, of loss and rediscovery.


Jillian, Beatrice and Rose have gathered for the funeral of their younger sister, Meredith.  Her death, and the legacy she leaves them, will trigger a cross-country journey in search of a stranger - a stranger with the power to mend their shattered lives.  As the emotions of the past reverberate into the present, Jilly, Birdie and Rose search for the girls they once were - in hopes of finding what they had really lost: the women they were meant to be.

My Review: What a wonderful story this was, at times heart-wrenching, at others, elating.  Mary Alice Monroe creates a very believable family, with all the problems inherit in many families.  Many of the events take place in the early 70s, so anyone who grew up in that time period will connect even deeper with what's going on then I did as a child of the 80s and 90s.  But even with the time period differences, the issues are things many, if not all, women have to go through at some point in their lives.  An unusual coming of age story that focuses on life after middle age.  A very well written timeline, at no time did I get confused as to what point of time Mary Alice Monroe was writing about.

I'd Recommend This Book To: Any woman, young and old alike.