Every month they gather over good food and wine to discusstheir favorite books: six very different women—not quite friends,not quite strangers. Enid is a successful psychiatrist, brilliant yetinexplicably dissatisfied; Donna, torn between two lovers, dreamsof family but fears commitment; Rina's destructive fantasies maybe her downfall; Pat and Hedy are sisters as dissimilar as they arecompetitive; and Connie is the envy of all her friends with theperfect career, the perfect family, the perfect life. Brought togetherby their love of literature, they share a deep understanding of oneanother…or so they think.Then Connie, the woman seemingly so happy, announces thatshe is divorcing her husband for reasons she refuses to share.The ensuing drama that unfolds forces each woman to explorethe secrets shaping and burdening her life as they speculate aboutwhat could have happened—and what, in their own circumstances,would constitute the ultimate betrayal. Read Less