This was a great read. From my perspective, the ending was a happy one overall, which I found really refreshing and nice.

“ Because there is no map to paradise. There is only the dream that such a place exists, as does the desire to possess it, and the determination to find it again when it’s been lost.”

Melanie is an actress that is being blacklisted from Hollywood because she was seeing someone that had possible Communist leanings. Eva is her Polish housekeeper that has secrets of her own. June is the reclusive next door neighbor’s sister in law. One early morning, Melanie sees June digging up her neighbor’s roses. From there these three women will form an alliance and start a friendship out of an unlikely start.

I loved each woman and their individual stories. I liked how they were able to rise after what eah had endured. Great writing and a wonderful story.