As you can see, the title to this entry is all in lower case to match the book's cover. I felt it was only right to do so, adding to the playing down of the significance of all the social lives within the pages of this good read.
Not that their lives are insignificant. That is not what I am saying, but rather the insignificance of all the social things they feel compelled they need to do or accomplish in order to stay in the top five. The top of the social ladder. The top five rungs. Don't look down you might fall off the ladder and then what would you do? Oh no!
If you think that all is bling and right with one's world if one possesses possessions and can throw billions around the globe then think again. If anything there may be more intrigue, more secrets under the covers and more pill popping than you can imagine. And that's just the children! The adults are more subtle at hiding their fears and their real thoughts under the makeup, inside the mansions, within their verbal barbs and aboard their private jets.
But it's more about the girls, the young women and the well heeled wives who's reputations and fortunes are at stake. What do they have to do in order to begin to be popular at a young age and what do they have to do in middle age in order to keep their status once achieved. Let the claws come out.
It's a Peyton Place waiting to happen and you want to read on and on because you get wrapped up in these four couples and their social lives.
Don't get too smug. The ending is not what you think it will be and you will go ... what?!
Good show, Wendy.
By the way ... got this one at my Goodwill.
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