| Details | | Publication Date: | 1998-04-01 |
| Size | | Height: | 7.0 in | | Width: | 4.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 6.4 oz |
Publisher's Note
A gifted storyteller who truly "understands the human heart," (Literary Times) Jean Stone returns with another deeply enthralling tale, this one about three women facing fifty--and determined to change their lives....Once they were childhood friends who celebrated birthdays together, sharing laughter and tears and heartfelt dreams. Then they lost touch. Yet now, on the brink of turning fifty, one of them is desperate enough to contact the others--looking for more than an innocent reunion....Abigail is a star, a new Martha Stewart whose weekly TV show has won her millions of fans. Maddie is a brilliant photographer under contract with a hip magazine. And daredevil Kris is a writer whose taut thrillers have been on bestseller lists for years. But one of them carries a dark, tormenting secret; another is obsessed with the man she loved and lost; a third would give anything to start over; and all are haunted by the stark passage of time. So what will the friends do? Theyll share their birthday wishes just like before, only this time they'll go to any lengths to make sure their wishes come true....
Abigail, Maddie, and Chris were childhood friends who celebrated birthdays together, sharing laughter and tears and dreams. Now, as they near the age of 50, each woman has achieved success, but each harbors a secret, and each is haunted by the passage of time. Somehow, the women must try to help each other make their wishes come true.
Industry Reviews
Imagine a follow-up star vehicle to The First Wives Club for Diane Keaton and Bette Midler (Goldie Hawn loses out replaced by Whitney Houston, perhaps), and you know all you need to know about Stone's (Places by the Sea) latest. Abigail Hardy (a Martha Stewart clone), Maddie Daniels (think Annie Liebovitz) and Kris Kensington (bestselling African American writer la Terry McMillan), were best friends at a tony Westchester girls' prep school. As girls, they used to make birthday wishes, and now as they face 49, Abigail convenes a reunion-c**-birthday lunch and makes a startling proposal that each of them helps the others make a last birthday wish a reality. But what more could these well-coifed and outwardly successful women in full-blown mid-life crisis want? Except for Abigail, the most deeply troubled of the trio, what they crave is underwhelming, a rapprochement with an ex-lover, a late-life baby. Birthday Girls is an often-engaging read, but the clich?d plot ultimately disappoints. (Mar.)
Lopate
Imagine a follow-up star vehicle to The First Wives Club for Diane Keaton and Bette Midler (Goldie Hawn loses out replaced by Whitney Houston, perhaps), and you know all you need to know about Stone's (Places by the Sea) latest. Abigail Hardy (a Martha Stewart clone), Maddie Daniels (think Annie Liebovitz) and Kris Kensington (bestselling African American writer la Terry McMillan), were best friends at a tony Westchester girls' prep school. As girls, they used to make birthday wishes, and now as they face 49, Abigail convenes a reunion-c**-birthday lunch and makes a startling proposal that each of them helps the others make a last birthday wish a reality. But what more could these well-coifed and outwardly successful women in full-blown mid-life crisis want? Except for Abigail, the most deeply troubled of the trio, what they crave is underwhelming, a rapprochement with an ex-lover, a late-life baby. Birthday Girls is an often-engaging read, but the clich‚d plot ultimately disappoints. (Mar.)
Publishers Weekly (02/02/1998)
Imagine a follow-up star vehicle to The First Wives Club for Diane Keaton and Bette Midler (Goldie Hawn loses out replaced by Whitney Houston, perhaps), and you know all you need to know about Stone's (Places by the Sea) latest. Abigail Hardy (a Martha Stewart clone), Maddie Daniels (think Annie Liebovitz) and Kris Kensington (bestselling African American writer la Terry McMillan), were best friends at a tony Westchester girls' prep school. As girls, they used to make birthday wishes, and now as they face 49, Abigail convenes a reunion-c**-birthday lunch and makes a startling proposal that each of them helps the others make a last birthday wish a reality. But what more could these well-coifed and outwardly successful women in full-blown mid-life crisis want? Except for Abigail, the most deeply troubled of the trio, what they crave is underwhelming, a rapprochement with an ex-lover, a late-life baby. Birthday Girls is an often-engaging read, but the clich d plot ultimately disappoints. (Mar.)
Publishers Weekly (02/02/1998)
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