Anne Rivers Siddons

They came together as sorority sisters on a Southern campus in the '60s. Four young women bound by rare, blinding early friendship, they spent two idyllic spring breaks at Nags Head, North Carolina....

Molly Bell Redwine was raised to believe that nothing is more important than "The Family"....

Caroline Venable has everything her Southern heritage promised: money, prestige, a powerful husband - and a predictable routine of country-club luncheons....

From best-selling author Anne Rivers Siddons comes a bittersweet and finely wrought story of friendship, family, and Charleston society....

At 12, Peyton McKenzie isn't ready to share her widowed father with anyone, let alone Nora, her redheaded, cigarette-smoking cousin....

Peyton is not ready to share her widowed father with anyone, let alone a barely remembered cousin who just rolled into town. However, her father seems to like Nora well enough...

Kate Abrams ponders the past. Had she ever known anyone as intimately as these three....

From best-selling author Anne Rivers Siddons comes a bittersweet and finely wrought story of friendship, family, and Charleston society....

Read by Academy Award winner Marcia Gay Harden.
A single event in her childhood irrevocably marked Catherine Gaillard, and made it impossible for her to leave her cloistered mountaintop town in Tennessee for the next 30 years....

Anny Butler is a caretaker, a nurturer, first for her own brothers and sisters, and then as a director of an agency devoted to the welfare of children. What she has never had is a real family....

Spurred to action and inspired with new purpose, Caro must confront the life she has been leading....

Adventure and calamity strike when a model wife and mother takes an uncharacteristic risk....

After her recent divorce, the last thing Diane "Andy" Calhoun wants is another relationship....

In this collection of heartfelt and involving vignettes, Anne Rivers Siddons offers a stirring and insightful look at our everyday world and how one woman has chosen to live in it....