SummaryEvery summer, Felice, Helen, Stella, and Grace meet at
Oakland View Swim and Tennis Club. As their children learn
to swim, they sit by the pool talking, laughing, sharing
in each other's lives. After seven years, it seems nothing
will ever change among them. Until this summer...
Grace has cancer. It wasn't supposed to return, but it
has. And now, at the brink of crisis, as the women help
Grace through her illness, they are forced to examine
their own lives and wonder...why Felice no longer has
anything in common with her husband, who was once her best
friend...why Helen, who is so afraid of being ordinary,
starts an affair with a man half her age...why Stella, who
has everything, is willing to take the biggest risk of
all. And why Grace, who says she is ill, is still working
out at the gym and sitting by the pool as if nothing is
the matter. But something is the matter. And as the
friends face adversity, they face the truth. That they
don't really know Grace—or one another—at all.
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