Publisher's Synopsis
Three women, born at the outbreak of World War II: Connie is the youngest of a large Irish family; beautiful and impulsive, men love her. She roars through life, never looking before she leaps. Nina is English, middle-class, shy and thoughtful. She married her girlhood love and has two children before finding herself deeply unfulfilled and with a passion to paint. Fay, the Jewish American granddaughter of a holocaust survivor, is ambitious, realising her dream to become a doctor, but finally admitting a darker, more complex side to her nature. These three women meet in the early 1960s and form an improbable friendship that sustains them through forty years of love, marriage, children, work, divorce and tragedy.
