book about the long lasting friendship ofwomen who met at work and reunited years later, Its a great story of love friendship and a reminder that nothing is what it seems, everyone has a Story going on behind the scenes I think I like SS, I'll buy more of her books! This one was about women my age and I loved it that all characters were so real, all problems came as consequences of their characters, it was exciting and intriguing and nicely slow at the same time.
A bit much of the womanwoman romance not very likely thatout ofgirls would be lesbian in any given circle, . . , but the whole book was so good on the whole, I didn't mind so much,
I'll definitely reread!
"It's OK, Ma, Ruth wouldn't let anything or anyone get to her twin brother, They're practically incestuous. "
"What do you know about incest, for God's sake"
"It's in the Bible, "
"Oh well. In this case I'm thankful for it, "
pThere were four of them: young women, dressed decorously in black, employed at an exclusive jewellery store in thes, Close friendships were forged as Natasha, Prudence, Rachel and Maisie worked together under the benevolent rule of the two Markham brothers,
Now, in, Natasha, newly divorced and back from America with a fifteenyearold daughter, decides there must be a reunion, Pru, always the mysterious one, deeply involved with her commune in Cornwall, unexpectedly offers Prospect House, a property she has inherited in the Malvern hills where they may all forgather.
Rachel, married to her former boss, a Liberal MP, gladly leaves a tangled domestic situation to join the friends she hasn't seen for so long, And Maisie Maisie, perhaps the most vulnerable of the four, mother of five children, married to the unpredictable Edward, fails to arrive at Prospect House, The drama of her disappearance has a farreaching effect on the lives and destinies of them all,
Come Rain or Shine is a poignant and unforgettable story of the particularly close friendships that women enjoy and of the complications that can arise when friends meet again after many years have passed.
A group of women who worked together planned a reunionyears on, They had all gone their separate ways and have changed somewhat, All have problems and secrets about to be revealed, Maisie, the youngest and seemingly most vulnerable, doesn't arrive as planned, The real drama of her disappearance causes changes for her family and her friends that are totally unexpected, Relationships change and the group have to decide exactly what each of them really wants out of life and face their fears, Susan Sallis was the author of over twenty bestselling novels, many of them set in the West Country, She was born in Gloucestershire and lived in Somerset with her family, She died in. .