Durante diez años cuatro amigas comparten una amistad que enriquece sus vidas, las proporciona consuelo y apoyo. Les une un vínculo que en ocasiones es alegre pero otras es doloroso.
Su amistad está sujeta a tensiones que en ocasiones casi la destruye, pero el entendimiento y el diálogo acaba haciéndolas aún más fuertes.

Rudy intenta olvidar un pasado amoroso. Emma independiente y huraña que busca el amor que no llega. Isabel enferma de cáncer es lo fuerza que las mantiene. Lee sólo desea ser madre.

Cada capítulo es contado en primera por una de ellas.

There are a lot of "women's novels" out there about groups of women who form lifelong friendships and end up helping each other through major changes. But most of them don't tell the story as well as Gaffney does here.

At first, it looks like a set-up. Emma is hopelessly in love with a married man. Lee is so intent on having a baby that the effort is endangering her marrieage. Rudy is slowly being subsumed by a passive-aggressive husband who's not above gaslighting her to get his way. And Isabel has survived divorce only to face a battle with breast cancer.

Pretty much Hallmark Movie of the Week up to this point.

But these women are so well drawn, and their responses are so consistent to their characters, that the reader really will begin to care about what happens to them. ( )

A great read. Gaffney created engaging women and nicely twisted several story lines together to offer a little bit for nearly any woman to identify with. This book was recommended by a friend, and I have since passed it on to several others as well as sharing it with the book club I attend. ( )

This novel reminded me a little of "The Book Club" by Mary Alice Monro. I know many of my women friends enjoy being in a group similar to "The Saving Graces" but it's just not me. I enjoyed this novel a little more than "The Book Club" but it's not a favorite read nor a novel that I would highlight to a friend. I find the women in these novels to be quite self-absorbed.

I did find the writing about Isabel's cancer to be compelling and almost breath-taking - perhaps because a brother-in-law with Stage 4 Pancreatic cancer is now at home on hospice. ( )

DNF-donated Wanted to like this one,but Emma kept going on abt Mick draco and I just couldn't take it anymore. ( )