Fun story of 4 female friends, Lynne, MaryKay, Beth and Carol, who as young mothers met at a PTA meeting and became bffs ever after meeting once a month and more often as required to laugh, talk out their home issues, relationship issues, mother issues and any other issues that they had over martinis. They created a club entitled “The Ladies Society for the Conservation of Martinis,” named after an aged cookbook they had found with a similar name. They help each other during times of crisis and console each other and commiserate as friends do over everything they go through, until, Lynne is diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer. Still close, still there to help they continue to be supportive of one another, though now there is a dark harbinger hanging over them. Lynne asks her friends to not let her husband nor kids, nor her mother-in-law nor sister-in-laws go through her things when she dies. She wants the club to do it. They agree. Then without saying anything further, Lynne picks a beautiful sunny day to chat with some folks and enjoy the day, then she commits suicide so she won’t have to go through the worst of the cancer treatments nor the pain of the incurable at this point disease. This puts her friends in a bit of a precarious position given that they have to wade through the house full of in-laws giving them the stink eye for carrying out their task, but, it is what Lynne wanted and she made sure her immediate family knew it. Of course Lynne told her family it would be too hard for them to have to deal with it but there was more to the story than that. There is a mystery Lynne wanted her friends to discover and then solve. With plenty of Martinis and ingredients for many, many more martinis in hand the remaining three friends pack their bags and go on a roadtrip in honor of their friend Lynne. Good times, bad times, and lots of eye-opening times along with a great adventure lead the gals here, there and back again with some wonderful and hilarious happenings. A good book and a great tale for friends to share in a book group. I must say, pack the martinis, though, this book will make you want to get your drink on and join the party.
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