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Four old friends meet at a beach house, their usual retreat, only this time one of them asks the others to help her accomplish something that the others will consider unethical, even criminal. Is their forty-year friendship strong enough to agree?
Four women, old college friends, meet at Madge's beach house, as they have done before, for a weekend retreat. This time, along with good food, glasses of wine, a little gossip, they discover that Madge, a successful novelist, has included them in her next book, the stories of their lives after their days and nights in the sorority solarium, smoking Pall Malls and talking as sexy as one could in the late 50's.
"Your stories aren't finished," Madge tells them, "just as your lives aren't. And I need your help to finish my own story. "
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Edith awakes to find her husband of many years lying dead beside her. It is Christmas morning. She wonders if she should go ahead with the grandchildren's celebration and the strata she's cooked for brunch, or deal with the body in her bed.
Decades ago, a shot-gun wedding locked Edith into a life with a husband sh'e not sure she ever loved. At sixty-five, she feels like a ghost in her own life, wondering how it all came about: a scoornful husband, the mercenary brood of grandchildren, her well-meaning but controlling daughter-in-law.
Her husband dies on Christmas morning. Edith wonders if she should go ahead with the brunch she's planned with her son's family. She doesn't and begin the job of sorting out Art's things after the funeral. Questions arise about the scraps of paper she finds i | |  | | The Runaway
An old woman, a street kid in punk clothes, an increasingly insane serial killer, and some of the transients who visit the local park all seek lost families in this thriller.
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