This one started out slow for me, but some all of a sudden as I was reading I realize that I had fallen for this book, these women, and the very idea of the house as their safe haven.

All of these women are so very different, and some are hard to like at the start, but as the story goes on you realize they are just like you. Hiding things that they are ashamed of both in their past and in their current life, they are both jealous of their friends success and happy for them, and all of them need the support of their friends but don't realize just how important that support is until it is necessary.

Each of them also has to take a long hard look at their lives, see what is not working and find a way to make their life work, often in a whole new way.

This was a great story about friendship, love, and life, and how you should never let those girlfriends disappear!