....and dull. I picked it up for summer reading and couldn't even finish it, it was such pre-packaged, formulaic, women's mag tripe. I only hope it made a good movie (in which they all wore, I am sure, 'crisp white linen'). I want my money back. (I only gave it one star because the cover was interesting.) Get a grip girls...read 'The Second Sex' by Simone de Beauvoir if you want to see how real women develop and support each other. Oooh, I know I sound like a cranky feminist, but honestly, I'm normal, a married mother of two. This book is just rubbish.