It is May in California, Cherry Strickland is eighteen, and she has been engaged for twenty-one minutes. The novel follows her and her sister Alix from their father’s house into adult life, through Cherry’s marriage to Martin, a move far from home, and the strains that love, money and loyalty put on two sisters who are very different.
A warm, perceptive domestic novel from one of the most popular American women novelists of her day. Download the free EPUB.