The set - up is simple: Four longtime friends meet each month to discuss their latest literary selection... and
gossip about their love lives.
Not exact matches
When I imagined what it would be like to give generously without wondering what is in it for me, to give up my grudges and learn to diffuse hatred with
love, to stop judging other people once and for all, to care for the poor and seek out the downtrodden, to finally believe that stuff can't make me happy, to give up my urge to
gossip and manipulate, to worry less
about what other people think, to refuse to retaliate no matter the cost, to be capable of forgiving to the point of death, to
live as Jesus
lived and
love as Jesus
loved, one word came to my mind: liberation.
It's a beautifully judged moment that introduces these tempestuous characters in an intimate and energetic manner as they
gossip and talk
about their
love lives.
Gentle
gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy's
life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her
love for her two daughters.
And Melly, whose
gossip about the neighbours leads to trouble in the form of a the fortune teller, «Madame Magic»... No one rivals Maeve Binchy for stories of warmth, kindness,
love, loss - and
life not always turning out as expected.