The Opening

By Susannah Wilds

The Opening , a heart tugging story of long lasting friendships, high flying dreams, and perilous loves, reads like a weekend with your best friends. Lucy discovers a prediction that she wrote over... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595090818
• ISBN13: 9780595090815
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

A great book club read

I really enjoyed The Opening By Susannah Ellis Wilds. The story line was one that got me hooked really early on as I know I could easily have been one of the characters in the book.The Opening has a dual meaning - the reader first learns that the novel is about a fun prediction written about a group of friends during their pre-teen years and hidden away until accidentally discovered many years later. The group has lost touch and the writer of the note, Lucy decides it is high time for a reunion. The book floats between each girl's life - then and now.While the revelations made when the girls finally unite are not that out of the ordinary nor surprising it is the sweet journey that brings us to the gathering. Each woman's life will touch the reader in a multitude of ways. Whether it reminds the reader of themselves or friends they have known at different stages of their life The Opening will certainly tug the heart strings and make you want to pick up the phone to find long lost friends.

Wonderful first book -

This is a throughly enjoyable book - in particular the software chapters, which may have something to do with the fact that I too am a early retiree from the software business. It brings back good memories to this Yankee girl of serious conversations with "my girlfriends" and predictions of our futures. I heard Susannah Wilds speak at a writers group in Charlotte NC, and am looking forward to the next book. I have suggested to several of my friends that they will love this book. Captures the growing up memories for all of us from the 50's and 60's and mwill make us want to start over in many cases

Wonderful story of friendship!

For those of us who grew up in the 50s and 60s, this book will be a trip down memory lane. We all remember where we were when we first heard that President Kennedy was shot (I was in 10th grade in the Driver's Ed car). It is so easy to identify with the characters in the book. I most easily identify with Wallee, as I also had polio during the Polio Epidemics in the early 50s before the vaccine was approved. While there are as many Polio Stories as there are survivors, A lot of what happened to Wallee happened to me, too. I am pleased that Susannah Wilds also addresses the new syndrome that many Polio survivors now face: Post Polio Syndrome, PPS. At a time in our lives when we should be looking forward to retiring...we are faced with debilitating fatigue, pain, and even breathing problems. Many people don't even know we are still fighting, but this time there is so much less to fight with. It is wonderful to have friends, and this circle of friends find one another and reinforces the need we have for each other. Play some good old rock and roll, sip a Dr. Pepper, and read a good book: The Opening!

The Opening is memorable!

This is a must-read book! I recommend it for reading groups, it will get your juices going! After Louisiana Jones retires early from the world of high-tech & big business she discovers a slip of paper on which she had, upon reading her last year book of high school, written predictions for her circle of friends. When she decides to reconnect with those five friends, she opens a Pandora's box of dreams, memories & unforgiven betrayals. A fine meander through the coming of age of Southern girls just as the '50s turned into the '60s, with poetry, petticoats & boys galore! Good stuff! ...

The Opening

Warm, touching and funny, this tale of childhood friendships and secrets struck a chord in my own memory. The reunion of these childhood friends will make you want to look up all those dear friends from your youth and schedule your own reunion. I realize now that my dreams and antics as a child really weren't all THAT strange . . . here's a book full of "me's"!