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Loading... The Four Seasonsby Mary Alice Monroe
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  dianaleez | Feb 27, 2009 |  Outstanding novel. When the youngest of the four Season sisters dies, she sets the others on a quest for a missing family member. Each woman is an individual. Very good! (  ) LesaHolstine | Jul 18, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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They are the Season sisters, bound by blood, driven apart by a tragedy. Now they are about to embark on a bittersweet journey into the unknown, an odyssey of promise and forgiveness, of loss and rediscovery.
Jillian, Beatrice and Rose have gathered for the funeral of their younger sister, Meredith. Her death, and the legacy she leaves them, will trigger a cross-country journey in search of a stranger -- a stranger with the power to mend their shattered lives. As the emotions of the past reverberate into the present, Jillian, Beatrice and Rose search for the girls they once were -- in hopes of finding what they really lost: the women they were meant to be.
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It's the story of the four Season sisters: Jillian, Beatrice, Rose, and Meredith. The novel opens when the sisters reunite for Merry's funeral, and it takes its shape from her final request - that they find the child, now an adult, that one of them gave up for adoption as a teen.
I confess that I didn't find anything unique or particularly interesting here. Her theme seems to be the effect of the past on the present and the necessity to break down walls and 'share.' I felt rather battered over the head by her heavy handed didacticism by the time I finished the novel, but at least I did finish it.
I suppose my verdict is 'so/so.' (