Choral Society

By Prue Leith

Book Overview

When Lucy and Rebecca agree to help the shy Joanna overcome stagefright during their choral class, an unlikely friendship develops among the three. And soon enough, the lessons turn to matters of the heart. Lucy has been recently widowed and now faces the loss of her "old-fashioned" food column. Rebecca is a flighty single mother with a voracious sexual appetite, and Joanna is a hard charging businesswoman, who comes home nightly to an empty house. From acclaimed writer Prue Leith comes a delightful novel that proves it's never too late for a lesson in life and love.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312560788
• ISBN13: 9780312560782
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.6" x 1.2" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

engaging character study

The fifty something women meet in a choral class and become friends at a time each suffers from a midlife crisis. Lucy the food columnist has recently lost her husband and apparently now her column. Single mom Rebecca has always been single going through men like M & Ms though the constant meeting, dating and breaking up has made her wary. Venture capitalist Joanna is bored with her life as she is comfortable with bottom lines not men. The choral director Nelson and Rebecca begin a tryst. Joanna falls in love for the first time but learns a sad lesson about mixing work with pleasure. Rebecca helps Lucy with a complete makeover that gives her confidence to try to obtain a teaching position and perhaps even a new man. This is an engaging character study of three middle age women struggling with issues and men, or lack of the latter. Each of the three BFFs is unique as they each approach life from different foundations. Although they all would like a loving relationship with a male, each of the trio understands "I will survive" (Gloria Gaynor) without one; as they are strong and strengthened by their friendships so that they believe they can do anything because "I am woman" (Helen Reddy). Harriet Klausner