The Saturday Evening Girls Club: A Novel
Written by Jane Healey
Narrated by Cassandra Campbell
4.5/5
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About this audiobook
In Boston’s North End, four immigrant women leave childhood behind—but never one another.
For four young immigrant women living in Boston’s North End in the early 1900s, escaping tradition doesn’t come easy. But at least they have one another and the Saturday Evening Girls Club, a social pottery-making group offering respite from their hectic home lives—and hope for a better future.
Ambitious Caprice dreams of opening her own hat shop, which clashes with the expectations of her Sicilian-born parents. Brilliant Ada secretly takes college classes despite the disapproval of her Russian Jewish father. Stunning Maria could marry anyone yet guards her heart to avoid the fate of her Italian Catholic mother, broken down by an alcoholic husband. And shy Thea is torn between asserting herself and embracing an antiquated Jewish tradition.
The friends face family clashes and romantic entanglements, career struggles and cultural prejudice. But through their unfailing bond, forged through their weekly gathering, they’ll draw strength—and the courage to transform their immigrant stories into the American lives of their dreams.
Jane Healey
JANE HEALEY studied writing in the MFA program at CUNY Brooklyn College and is the author of the novel The Animals at Lockwood Manor, winner of the HWA Debut Crown Award. Her short fiction has been short-listed for the Bristol Short Story Prize, the Costa Short Story Award, and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She lives in Edinburgh.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great story of 4 best friends forging their path through life in 1900’s Boston. Learning how to embrace their family traditions while discovering their own dreams for their futures.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Couldn’t finish it. I didn’t enjoy the reader at all. Airy, wispy, affected voice used for dialogue made everything very cheap. Content has been done before but much better example The Boston girl by Anita Diamant.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It’s a juvenile book, foreseeable, but entertaining and very sweet.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Every needs to have a group like this! To love with, to grow with and to get through hard times with!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wonderful book! The development of all four characters was very well presented. Life in the early 1900's Boston was depicted so believably. The story of the friendship between the young immigrant women & the support received from the women directing their club was very touching & real. The audio presenter was excellent & made this especially enjoyable!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I enjoyed the story and the historical details. Some of the characters were actually real so it bad it more authentic. The narrator was good and I liked that each of the four girls had a unique story line
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5No surprises, nice story to pass time. For older people young people would be appalled that people were known for their ethnicity.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I enjoyed the look into the lives early 20th century immigrants . The naivety of the girls was certainly refreshing.. The story was very entertaining.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The story line was very sweet and entertaining. I enjoyed stepping into the lives of these Americanized young immigrant women. And as an audible reader, I really enjoyed the narrator.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Great story of women uplifting women!
Character development was nicely done. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Wonderful, sweet book about the friendship between 4 young women in the early 1900's. The dreams for their future and the limitations they had to deal with in life and love. Just what I needed for an interesting distraction. The narrator was marvelous!!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sweet story -love the Italian and Jewish proverbs nice touch! And love the portrait of rich Italian and Jewish traditions
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This book was a look back to a time reminiscent of a beautiful, safer, innocent time in history. When family and heritage mattered. When friendship and loyalty were important.
A tribute to brave women who worked hard to achieve love, happiness, families and careers.
I wish we could go back to those times.