Desperate Housewives (season 4) receiving star billing. All eleven starring actors from the previous season returned for this season. The series is narrated by Brenda Strong, who portrays the deceased Mary Alice Young, as she observes from beyond the grave the lives of the Wisteria Lane residents and her former best friends. Teri Hatcher portrayed Susan Delfino, who is finally married after three seasons searching for a stable relationship. Felicity Huffman portrayed Lynette Scavo, who fights cancer during the first half of the season and deals with her step-daughter's behavior in the second half. Marcia Cross portrayed Bree Hodge, married for the second time
Desperate Housewives Springer Show". "Reading 'Desperate Housewives': Beyond the White Picket Fence" (), from I.B. Tauris, is an academic look at the show by film studies lecturers Janet McCabe and Kim Akassm. "Welcome to Wisteria Lane: On America's Favorite Desperate Housewives" (), published by BenBella Books, consists of seventeen essays written from a feminist perspective. In Chalice Press' "Not-So-Desperate: Fantasy, Fact and Faith on Wisteria Lane" (), author Shawnthea Monroe is giving a Christian interpretation of the series. Also, following the "real life desperate housewives" phenomenon, several books have been released dealing with life strategies for contemporary women. In December 2006, it