Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik

Angry Housewives is about five young women of Fresia Court in small-town, Minnesota. The reader is given glimpses of their lives as they form a book group and the choices of books they read help us to "flesh out" their characters and Landvik exposes their stories: Faith, who is living a lie, Audrey, resident sex queen, Merit, shy doctor's wife, thoughtful and wise older Kari and Slip, afraid of nothing. Determined, these women are closer than sisters, looking out for each other, loving and caring, forgiving. We are taken through the years with these women, who might be women we all know, making the last chapter bittersweet. A good read. Sandy Penton.