Joan Medlicott Two Days after the Wedding

Two Days after the Wedding

Joan Medlicott

Pocket, Jun 2006, $12.00

ISBN: 0743470435

In quiet Covington, North Carolina Grace Singleton, Hannah Parrish and Amelia DeClose share a farmhouse. However, change is everywhere, but especially to the three best friends.

Hannah and Max agree that they will marry soon, but not live together as they will continue to maintain separate homes. Grace worries that her friend Bob, who has moved next door, is too harsh a disciplinarian on her two grandchildren living with her since their mom left for Florida to practice law; he thinks Grace lets the infant tyrant two year old Melissa get away with anything including destroying her brother Tyler's history report. Amelia's photographs have become very popular and people from as far away as New York buy them. In fact, she is going to attend a showing of her work in the big Apple of an impoverished mountain family that lays bare their fall into the ooze below the food chain.

Clearly for fans of the series only, life moves on filled with relationship troubles that lead to changes for the three Tarheel ladies. The story line is obviously character driven by the trio as each has problems to cope with while dealing with other people. However, one must wonder how you're going to keep Amelia down on the farm after she seen New York City.

Harriet Klausner