Three women in their sixties live in a boarding house run by an unpleasant, overbearing woman. When one of the women, Amelia, inherits an old farm house, they decide to fix it up and live there. So Amelia hires a local man to do all the repairs and remodeling and pretty soon the three have moved to a very small mountain community to start life anew.
So next throw in some pretty standard plot devices to add a little drama (one woman gets lost on a hike to do some photography, one woman accidentally starts a fire, one woman gets jealous, one woman's son has a lover with HIV, and there is a challenge to legitmacy of the inheritance) and that's basically the story. It's an OK story if you can overlook a few things, like how stupid these women seem to be at times. I mean, a kid of 14 would know you don't wander off into a forest by yourself and if you're going to burn leaves, don't set the whole orchard on fire. I just don't think that would happen to these women unless they are all senile, in which case they should be in a nursing home.
Review from Publishers Weekly: https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-312-25329-5.
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