One book club choice that I was not looking forward to. However this novel has plenty to commend it. Although it is very light and undemanding, I liked the characters. Addie Baum is telling her life story to a granddaughter and this works very well. Her mother is an over powering presence throughout, and not in a good way. But her friends are great and her early years are especially interesting. In fact all the main characters are well drawn.
There are some nice observations: "Every girl should have her own money" and "You never marry one person, you get the whole family as part of the deal".
In the end, this is quite a sentimental story, and much too nice to be true.
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