内容简介：
Three women, born at the outbreak of World War II, meet in the early sixties. From widely differing backgrounds, they form an improbable friendship that sustains them through forty years of love, marriage, children, work, divorce and tragedy, during a period that saw dramatic change in the lives of women everywhere. Connie is from a large Irish family. Beautiful and impulsive, men will always love her. Nina is English and middle-class. She marries and has two children before realizing how unfulfilled she is. Fay is a Jewish American, the granddaughter of a holocaust survivor. She fulfils her dream of becoming a doctor but finds she must admit a darker, more complex side to her nature.