The Women's Center

By Michele Fitzpatrick

Book Overview

Who believes, follows
Who hopes, leads
Who loves, receives
Who forgives, heals

Award-winning journalist Michele Fitzpatrick's engaging debut novel introduces four unlikely heroines in their fifties who navigate extraordinary challenges as ordinary people do: rarely smoothly, often treading water, sometimes barely afloat.

Ruth Fortune is a trustworthy CEO who trusts no one, ever. Artist Pat Conelli considers her seven children her masterpieces but wonders where she mislaid herself. June Magee is a master craftswoman who can't craft a single love match. And Diane Jonasen? Her news career is solid. Her sanity? Not so much.

They have reunited thirty-five years after they were students at Shorelake College for Women to fulfill a promise to the woman who was their college president. They set out to transform an aging Chicago mansion into a twenty-first-century women's center, unaware the process will transform them.

What can you do when loss obliterates your faith, duty blurs hope, self-doubt trumps love or guilt denies you forgiveness? Flawed, funny, occasionally furious, they are about to find out.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1937484289
• ISBN13: 9781937484286
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Amika Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"