The Girls of August [electronic resource] / Anne Rivers Siddons.
Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire to strengthen their far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls of August. But when one of the Girls dies tragically, the group slowly drifts apart and their vacations together are brought to a halt. Years later, a new marriage reunites them and they decide to come together once again on a remote barrier island off the South Carolina coast. There, far from civilization, the women make startling discoveries that will change them in ways they never expected.
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- ISBN: 9781478951315
- ISBN: 1478951311
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 11 min.)) : digital.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [United States] : Hachette Book Group, 2014.
- Distributor: Made available through hoopla
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- Restrictions on Access Note:
- Flex title available through hoopla.
- Participant or Performer Note:
- Read by Kate Reading.
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire to strengthen their far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls of August. But when one of the Girls dies tragically, the group slowly drifts apart and their vacations together are brought to a halt. Years later, a new marriage reunites them and they decide to come together once again on a remote barrier island off the South Carolina coast. There, far from civilization, the women make startling discoveries that will change them in ways they never expected.
